“…This programme was related to the Stanford d.School or Aalto methods (the dean of the Liege Management School, Thomas Froelicher, who was involved in the ID Campus innovative programme, published in‐depth studies of the Helsinki innovative ecosystem which was realised at the same time and imitated at Liege) (Froehlicher & Barès, ). These initiatives, nurtured in the Wallonia Region, were born from many international interactions between scholars, entrepreneurs and civil servants: first, the Montreal metropolitan area's urban and industrial context to enhance “creative industries and activities” (Pawlak, ), but also a French urban policy experience in Nantes (Brittany) which had the same kind of industrial transition problems and where solutions had been found in a strong policy commitment to the enhancement of cultural and creative entrepreneurship creativity (Coëffé & Morice, ). The Wallonian region's strong commitment to global innovation and a “creative economy” from 2000 to 2010 illustrates a general acceleration of problem‐based learning and design thinking in higher education, particularly within the local innovative ecosystems, gradually linking “entrepreneurial universities”, cities and regions, institutions or governmental policies and entrepreneurship initiatives.…”