Entrepreneurial and Corporate Higher Education Institutions: Ukrainian and World Practice

The article is devoted to the new mission and tasks of the higher education institutions in the knowledge-based society. It is actualized the necessity to arrange the interconnections between the educational institutions, state, society and business at the expense of the coordination of the universities` activity, local and regional needs and potential of the knowledge economy. It is analyzed the notion “entrepreneurial university” as the higher educational institution that gets the resources for its activities from different sources and takes an active part in cooperation with the industry. It is also observed the notion “corporate university” as the educational center in the structure of the company that ensures staff training and is the center of the entrepreneurial culture. There is also a short characteristic of the development of the entrepreneurial values in the Ukrainian educational space.