Abstract
This paper analyses the demands that the economy of knowledge makes upon higher education and its implications as regards employability and innovative enterprise. In the context of Horizonte 2020, higher education institutions are facing the challenge of responding to new needs in the economic and labour sector. The strategy to follow is based on the optimisation of the knowledge triangle, reinforcing links between universities and companies through the transmission of knowledge, and directing the students’ skills towards employability and enterprise. According to the business and economic logic which dominates the higher education discourse, to talk about employability and enterprise is to talk not just about the added value of the universities, but also about the added value which graduates provide on entering the market. Therefore, employability and enterprise refer to something more than just an enablement of the students’ transversal skills. From the point of view of companies, this involves shifting the responsibility of this challenge to universities and graduates.
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