The Role of Entrepreneurial Universities in Supporting Intergenerational Family Businesses

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present some of the academic activities at the University of Ruse ‘Angel Kanchev’ to support the students’ mindset regarding intergenerational family businesses under the INTERGEN concept. The University of Ruse ‘Angel Kanchev’ is among the first five Bulgarian universities, which in 2014, the European Commission, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Bulgarian Ministry of Education approached to analyse how the HEInnovate tool for self-assessment could be used to make the academic communities more entrepreneurial. The tasks of this paper are: (1) to present the participation of the University of Ruse ‘Angel Kanchev’ in the HEInnovate initiatives; (2) to present some research activities at the University of Ruse in support of the intergenerational family businesses, carried out by the Entrepreneurship Centre during the COVID-19 period.