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II. Higher Education, Higher Education Policy (Higher Education Law, Higher Education Organisation, Personnel Structure, Student Body, Educational Assistance, Higher Education Statistics)
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author TCHOUVAKHINA, Margarita
Title KfW and the promotion of entrepreneurship training in Germany
Publication year 2004
Source/Footnote In: Higher education in Europe. - 28 (2004) 2, S. 233 - 236
Inventory number 17919
Keywords Hochschule und Wirtschaft ; Existenzgründung / Selbständigkeit ; Bedarf an Akademikern
Abstract The author, a spokesperson for Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), a major German investment bank, describes the efforts that this institution has made to stimulate the development of Entrepreneurship studies in German universities. These efforts got underway in 1998, when KfW financed the setting up of a professorial chair in new company formation at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel. Other chairs in other German universities followed. The author outlines the challenges to such university programmes in Germany and lists a number of recommendations to make instruction in the subject successful. KfW is promoting the generalization of entrepreneurial culture, without which Germany will be excluded from major economic developments. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)