What is Academic Entrepreneurship

This chapter interrogated issues that surround how universities can be led entrepreneurially, most especially in a post-COVID-19 economy. It articulates the fact that the pandemic has dealt a big blow to universities' sources of finance. Also, it stresses the fact that employees of these universities are capable of initiating creative ways to make the universities achieve their core and periphery activities. Additionally, it advanced the fact that the entrepreneurial behaviours of university leaders are more needed to foster creativity and innovation, and to help the university adapt quickly and fluidly to the changing milieus. It appraised the concepts of entrepreneurial leadership and creativity, and also advanced several implementation guidelines for fostering creativity among employees in order to create entrepreneurial universities. This chapter concluded that 21st century universities have to be led entrepreneurially in order to achieve their periphery and core objectives.