ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the general structural characteristics of Australia and the United States, and considers their expected influence on patterns of entrepreneurialism in higher education. It also discusses policies toward foreign students at the national, state, and institutional level. The chapter focuses on the cultural underpinnings of policies toward international students in the United States and Australia. Foreign student policy in Australia was originally embedded in the political economy of the British Empire; it has now shifted to a late twentieth century form of economic educational imperialism. Australia's political culture and its state socialist structures would lead one to expect US higher education to be more entrepreneurial. In the United States, policy has been driven by conflicted concerns about human capital, immigration, and costs that reflect a culture of education as commodity, but not a culture of entrepreneurialism.
