Embedding Innovation and Entrepreneurial Culture in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Cambodia

Higher education plays an important role in training human resources with real competencies, knowledge, and skills. In this context, it’s improving the quality of higher education is a necessary and urgent thing to do, as Cambodia has a vision of becoming a high-middle-income country by 2030. Innovation and Entrepreneurship refers to an individual’s ability to turn ideas into action. It includes creativity, innovation, and risk-taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives. Innovation and Entrepreneurship refers to an individual’s ability to turn ideas into action. It includes creativity, innovation, and risk-taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives. This helps everyone in daily life at home and in society, increases employee awareness of the context of their work and their ability to take advantage of opportunities, and forms the basis for entrepreneurs starting a business or social enterprise. An international phenomenon, entrepreneurship has a favorable impact on economic growth worldwide through the birth of fresh and creative business start-ups. Because of their beneficial effects on the economy, these new small firms help create jobs and persuade lawmakers to acknowledge and encourage entrepreneurial start-ups. Cambodia is concerned with promoting entrepreneurship to all people in order to develop successful entrepreneurs. Several entrepreneurship programs have been developed by the government and higher education institutions (HEIs) to support these entrepreneurship movements, but very little is known about the effectiveness of these entrepreneurship programs’ implementation. Therefore, this study has been evaluated to what extent the effectiveness of entrepreneurship subjects in Cambodia which has been selected as the target for higher education levels in the Siem Reap, Kampong Cham and Battambang province. This study uses case study methods and was carried out in two stages. The first stage is a descriptive and evaluative phase. Here, the study focused on the mapping of existing learning and institutional support within HEIs. To gain a better understanding of learning experiences that prepare students to become successful entrepreneurs, data exploration on the learning process within HEIs is assessed from internal viewpoints. The explanation phase is stage two. During this phase, the concepts, categories, and propositions derived from the phenomena are discovered and developed in order to provide a theory and platform for entrepreneurial learning.