Abstract:
Transformation in Higher Education can be shown in several ways ranging from transforming strategies
on executive management, academic offerings, and services to support staff and impactful deliveries
to students. Creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem is seen as one of the instruments of transformation. An
entrepreneurial ecosystem needs a community of practice that displays the character of creativity and innovation,
risk-taking, an initiator, a strategist, and an active participant in identifying opportunities and making
decisions among others in the business. The paper seeks to review transformation in Higher Education through
the entrepreneurship ecosystem using a thematic document analysis methodology. It is based on a thematic
review of relevant literature and establishes various themes that are essential for the development of an
entrepreneurial university. The themes are categorized as: an entrepreneurial University, entrepreneurship
in academia, and student entrepreneurship activities. Through the entrepreneurship ecosystem, universities
are expected to play a crucial role in building their structures to be economically active; addressing graduate
unemployment; providing recovery strategies to reboot businesses in communities, especially after the
COVID-19 pandemic; and positioning themselves as entrepreneurial universities. The findings of this study lead
to the recommendation that universities should initiate a change process from their traditional orientation
to become entrepreneurial universities. It is recommended that government and other stakeholder support
should be accelerated for the realization of the envisaged transformation to entrepreneurial ecosystems
