Entrepreneurship Centres

Gideon Maas is Director of the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship at Coventry University, UK. Previously the Director of Futures Entrepreneurship Centre at Plymouth University, he has created entrepreneurship centres at various universities during his career. Paul Jones is Deputy Director of the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Coventry University, UK. Paul is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research and Associate Editor for the International Journal of Management Education. He has published widely including one edited book, 48 journals and over 100 conference papers.

• Part I Introduction to Entrepreneurship centres.- Chapter 1 An Overview of Transformation Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 2 The Role of Entrepreneurship Centres.- Part II Cases of entrepreneurship centres within the UK.- Chapter 3 Coventry University.- Chapter 4 Lancaster University.- Chapter 5 Scotland Entrepreneurship Centre.- Part III European, Canadian and African Entrepreneurship Centres.- Chapter 6 EDEM Business School, Spain.- Chapter 7 The Hunter Business Centre, Canada.- Chapter 8 Santander International Entrepreneurship Centre.- Chapter 9 Centre for Entrepreneurship and Small Enterprise Development, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.- Part IV Guidelines for maintaining sustainable entrepreneurial centres.- Chapter 10 Conclusion.

“This book can be a timely collection to meet the needs of changing patterns of economic development. It provides practical examples of entrepreneurship centres which explore the path to the capitalization of knowledge and the commercialization of innovation. Every case study is interpreted in a comprehensive and systematic way. Not only can we comprehend its operating mode, but also feel the evolving process.” (Hao Ni and Guanshuang Han, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Vol. 14, 2018)