Abstract
The chapter discusses how a public South African university, the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), teaches student entrepreneurship through hackathons, incubation programmes, and their impact on students' entrepreneurial journeys. Data was generated from various sources such as observation from student entrepreneurship week and a series of student elevator pitches. Interviews were conducted with 12 participants comprised of UKZN alumni, public relations manager, ENACTUS member, UKZN incubation centre managers, and students. Data also supplemented with secondary data sources such as UKZN magazine Indaba. Findings suggest that hackathons are utilized to identify students' start-ups for incubation. UKZN InQuabate has the capacity as a public research university by promoting innovation, commercialization, and entrepreneurship. Universities as business incubation also support student start-up business by bringing student entrepreneurs together in a common working space.
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