ABSTRACT
Since the 2000s there has been an increasing prevalence of student entrepreneurship programmes in higher education institutions (HEIs). Even though the HEIs have different institutional and regional preconditions for student entrepreneurship, the concrete activities and strategies are often shaped by best practice models derived from successful and well-performing organizations. Hence, we argue in this chapter that a stronger investigation of how different HEIs interact with the region with regard to student entrepreneurship is needed. With empirical examples, we show how the embeddedness of HEIs in a regional context influences strategies for student entrepreneurship. We discuss the activities and strategies at three different HEIs in the Bergen region regarding how they have been influenced by the dynamic interaction between the HEIs and the regional context. We find that the regional HEIs embed their student entrepreneurship efforts more in networks on different geographical scales. For the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences the regional scale is of more importance, while the national scale is of more importance for the Norwegian School of Economics and the international scale is of more importance for the University of Bergen.
