Advancing entrepreneurial universities in Africa

Universities have been increasingly expected to transcend their conventional teaching and research missions to incorporate a third mission, which emphasizes enhanced external engagement and direct contributions to the socioeconomic development of their localities. The third mission expands the active role of the university as a catalyst for entrepreneurship and thus for the socioeconomic development of countries, thereby paving the way for the development of entrepreneurial universities. In an entrepreneurial university, the three missions will complement one another to realize the entrepreneurial strategy and establish entrepreneurship as a key competence of the institution. The present report is aimed at enriching the understanding of the status of development of entrepreneurial universities in Africa.