Something for African Universities to consider, albeit with adaptations. Natasha Singer writing in the NYTimes :
Ten years ago, it may have sufficed for colleges and universities like Rice to offer a few entrepreneurship courses, start-up workshops and clubs. But now hundreds of thousands of undergraduates, driven by a sullen job market and inspired by billion-dollar success narratives from Silicon Valley, expect universities to teach them how to convert their ideas into big businesses or nonprofit ventures.More here
As a result, colleges across the United States — and elite institutions in particular — have become engaged in an innovation arms race. Universities are expanding academic programs at a breakneck pace and constructing start-up centers. Harvard opened an Innovation Lab in 2011 that has helped start more than 75 companies; last year, New York University founded a campus entrepreneurs’ lab; this year, Northwestern University opened a student start-up center, The Garage.