Entrepreneurial universities in Ethiopia, Indonesia, and the Palestinian Territories: Impacting internal and external factors

Abstract

This chapter analyses the entrepreneurial status of universities in Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Palestine and their contribution to youth employment and entrepreneurship. It draws on a multiple case study of 14 universities: nine in Ethiopia, four in Palestine and one in Indonesia. A Likert-scale survey measuring perceptions was filled out by 769 respondents and a total of 439 university leaders, teachers, students, graduates, and external stakeholders were interviewed or participated in focus group discussions. Findings indicate that the more entrepreneurial universities seem to 'create' more entrepreneurial graduates who are better able to create a job or to find a job than graduates from less entrepreneurial universities.