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    A CASE STUDY OF THE NSU STARTUPS NEXT (NSUSN): FOSTERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION IN BANGLADESH
    (North South University, 2022-12) Samuel Mursalin; Ridwart Monk; Bente Formai; Helal Ahammad
    University business incubators (UBIs) give universities a dedicated entrepreneurship hub where young entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas receive mentorship, resources, and networking opportunities to lay the foundations for successful ventures and utilize the university's research outputs. Three years into the journey. North South University NSU Startups Next (NSUSN) has considerably impacted the Bangladeshi start-up ecosystem with its entrepreneurial education quality and business model. creating quality spin-off ventures and contributing to social and economic development. This article provides a case study for North South University's NSU Startups Next (NSUSN) which works with limited resources to support young star-up founders and provide value to the university entrepreneurs, the institution, society, and the economy. The study also outlined the model of NSU Start-up Next and provided insights on the outcomes obtained through its cohort-based system. The paper applies David 1 Miller's 'The Campus and the Ecosystem' framework to explain how a university's entrepreneurial ecosystem interacts with external stakeholders.