Digital games, which are increasingly integrating social components, offer the opportunity to weave softskill development into more traditional subjects.
"I think professional workers and their employers are going to come to appreciate and understand networking as more of a hard skill than a softskill, " she says.
Previously perceived as a "soft" skill, " Hobsbawm, who also runs networking business Editorial Intelligence, says effective networking will make the difference "between a highly skilled worker and an average worker.
These institutions are engaging with external partners to identify the hard and soft skills needed by graduates to succeed in entrepreneurial endeavors, and finding ways to integrate that skill development into the academic curriculum.