Online PhD conferral mr. Huub L.M. Mudde, MSc.

Key words: Entrepreneurial University; Entrepreneurship; Indonesia; Ethiopia; Palestine; Leadership

"Universities in the midst of society: Entrepreneurship and youth employment in Ethiopia, Indonesia and the Palestinian Territories"

This dissertation analyses entrepreneurial characteristics of universities in Ethiopia, Indonesia and the Palestinian Territories. It is about how universities contribute to the region in which they operate, and in particular on how they prepare students for (self-)employment through entrepreneurship development. This study concludes that leadership matters: the more entrepreneurial universities were those in which exemplary leadership of the university president was able to sense and seize an external opportunity for the benefit of the university. Entrepreneurial activities were taking place at all the universities, in particular entrepreneurship education. However, 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.