Building the Future: Summary of Four Studies to Develop the Private Sector, Education, Health Care, and Data for Decisionmaking for the Kurdistan Region -- Iraq

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Identifying the entrepreneurial environmental challenges in developing countries context: a study of public universities in Kurdistan Region – Iraq

“…The author believes that this issue can be addressed partly when graduates will be able to create their own ventures as these ventures will both can develop the private sector and decrease the level of unemployment. Anthony et al (2012) argue that entrepreneurship at the local level and establishing new businesses is one of the strategies that could be used for developing the private sector. In any case, it seems that there is an increasing need for Kurdish universities to embrace the entrepreneurial university concept because, as mentioned earlier, the entrepreneurial university assures that the notion of "entrepreneurship education" should be listed in the curricula of all schools in the university (Gibb, 2009).…”

“…In fact, the adoption of the entrepreneurial university model will be one of the solutions because of its positive impact on the economy and society, (Etzkowitz and Zhou, 2008;Gibb, 2009;Etzkowitz, 2013;Guerrero et al, 2014b;Guerrero et al, 2015;Brown, 2016;Reyes, 2016;Etzkowitz, 2017;Rubens et al, 2017;S anchez-Barrioluengo and Benneworth, 2019;Romero et al, 2021) for both developed and developing countries (Farsi et al, 2012) through, for example, generating knowledge and creating new ventures. The latter is important because Kurdistan Regional Government shows high interest in developing the private sector of the JEEE 15,5 region (Anthony et al, 2012;Shatz et al, 2014;Ministry of Planning -Kurdistan Regional Government, 2020).…”