The OpEn course was presented at the International Conference “Alliance for Entrepreneurship and Development in Western Greece”, organized by the Region of Western Greece on 13/12/2017.

The scope of my presentation entitled “Cultivating an ‘entrepreneurial spirit’: Insights from the OpEn online course” (in greek), co-authored with Dr. M. Komninou, was to present the OpEn course as a good example of the Triple Helix (university-industry-government) relationship.

OpEn is an open online course in digital entrepreneurship available at https://openup.upatras.gr/, funded by Erasmus+ within the project “Open-up Entrepreneurship”. Through this example, we wanted to highlight the challenges that educators face during the design and implementation of such a course and the way in which our collaboration with the “outside” (from the academic world) has helped us.

Finally, we discussed the “lessons” we have taken through the process of implementing OpEn and attempted to answer the question “Can we cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit, and if so, in what way?”

Cultivating an ‘entrepreneurial spirit’: Insights from the OpEn online course