Assessing the Entrepreneurial University from the Students' Perspective

Becoming an entrepreneurial university is one of the core objectives of the EU-OECD HEInnovate tool. This objective was also the catalyst for implementing HEInnovate within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Aveiro (UAVR), Portugal. This chapter explores the findings from a study that applied a mixed-methods approach to assessing the entrepreneurial and innovative vision of UAVR's students from different academic years and courses. Findings demonstrate students' high level of interest in innovation and entrepreneurship and highlight the importance they placed on entrepreneurial learning and teaching. Entrepreneurial learning and teaching were found to be especially important for creating collaborative networks between different people and scientific domains, both within and outside of the university.