Higher Education and Modernisation of the Economy: Innovative and Entrepreneurial Universities.

Abstract

This collection of papers is the fifth of a series of annual proceedings of the Eurasian Higher Education Leaders’ Forum. The annual Eurasian Higher Education Leaders’ Forum was held on the 26 May, 2016 at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. It has provided an international platform to discuss issues, rationales, transformation stages and pathways towards development of entrepreneurial universities in the context of regional engagement of higher education. The quality of debate and argument has benefited from the participation of local and international delegates that have shared their perspectives on the role of higher education sector in social and economic development.