The report highlights academic EE strategies and their evolution from a Platform to an Ecosystemic model that is here seen as an ideal scenario to align EE within the mission and values expected to achieve third mission outcomes and impact.
The deliverable is a starting point for developing the research in the field, paving the way for empirical validations able to highlight the link between University EE strategy and University ability to implement its third mission for disadvantaged groups fostering social cohesion and inclusion. It can also serve as a guide for entrepreneurship educators (public, private, and no-profit organizations), university executives, and policymakers to develop extensive and effective strategies in the EE field focusing on the Disadvantaged in ensuring economic empowerment and fostering social cohesion.
Universities are still recognized in society as key actors for education and knowledge creation, but new challenges are emerging considering the disruptive societal changes.
We detect how public-private universities' structures co-evolve in the digital era while preserving their role in society. We focus on the impact of "phygital" entrepreneurial educational platforms within an open entrepreneurship education ecosystem in partnership with other institutions by considering the future role of universities as global knowledge creating platforms, in the meantime engaged in strengthening local communities in which they are involved.
The research identifies the potential impact on disadvantaged individuals addresses of hybrid (phygital) entrepreneurship education/training programs at different situations of social inclusion: migrants, NEET, out-of-labor market workers, former prisoners, startuppers leveraging confiscated assets, and pursuing generational and gender equity.
The methodology adopted conjugates a Systematic Literature Review using PRISMA Diagram with a Structural Topic Modelling (STM) technique.