Internationally Comparative Approaches to Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Education

Abstract

Evidence suggests that international comparison has become a ubiquitous component of educational innovation and entrepreneurship in spite of significant variation among educational contexts worldwide. This chapter provides an overview of educational innovation and public sector entrepreneurship from an internationally comparative perspective. The influence that the global shift from natural resource and industry-based economies to knowledge-based economies has had on the development of educational innovation and entrepreneurship is explained. Several examples of educational innovation and education-oriented public sector entrepreneurship highlight the discussion, which concludes with an examination of specific knowledge society issues related to educational entrepreneurship and its reciprocal effect on innovation.

Citation

Wiseman, A.W. (2014), "Internationally Comparative Approaches to Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Education", International Educational Innovation and Public Sector Entrepreneurship (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 23), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 3-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3679(2013)0000023009