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Utilising local thinking for an international audience, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is undertaking a supervised research project at the International Institute for Creative Entrepreneurial Development (IICED) in the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Wales, UK. This develops a new curriculum that aims to enhance innovative capacity within learners on educational programmes—delivered to thirty-seven Empretec countries. Policy implications are also drawn for governments to consider, specifically, enhancing entrepreneurial education and skills development and facilitating technology exchange and innovation. Findings from empirical data point to the significant role of education in developing innovative capacity, but current student assessment practices may be hindering development. Frameworks have been developed that assist the evaluation and assessment of student performance beyond knowledge acquisition. This is important, because in an ever-changing landscape knowledge is increasingly temporary and the ability to harness meaningfully and flexibly breadth as well as depth of knowledge, at appropriate points in time, becomes a new goal.
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Mugione, F., Penaluna, A. (2018). Developing and Evaluating Enhanced Innovative Thinking Skills in Learners. In: James, J., Preece, J., Valdés-Cotera, R. (eds) Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61130-3_7
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