ABSTRACT
Entrepreneurship' refers to the identification and realisation of opportunities for new products and services made possible by the mobilisation of resources and the creation of new organisations. Higher education institutions (HEIs) support entrepreneurship education and training and indulge in a variety of knowledge transfer activities which promote entrepreneurship directly or indirectly through research, training and education. Researchers invoked the idea of a 'Triple Helix' of relationships between HEIs, industry and government. As primary institutions of higher education provision, universities shape and influence thought and action among young and old and across different domains of learning and subject disciplines, through research, teaching and knowledge exchange. One can conceptualise three linked but different types of capital that are necessary for investment in knowledge creation, such as intellectual, human and social. Universities are the main custodians of codified learning and especially of 'higher' forms of learning for their students and staff.
