This is the first of an occasional series highlighting those posts on PASCAL social media sites which have attracted the most interest over the past 7 days.  For more, follow PASCAL on Twitter @obspascal or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pascalobservatory.

Enterprise Education - What Works?  Despite the high numbers of courses available in universities and elsewhere this paper argues that there is still a lack of knowledge and sound research on which interventions and approaches work best for their given context. It announces the intention of the Kauffman fundation to try to fill this gap through a series of research studies.. To read the full piece go to bit.ly/1JTSDhm

The Personality of Entrepreneurial Cities An interesting piece from Richard Florida at Atlantic CityLab which highlights new psychological research to make the case that high quaity research universities, venture capital and talented people alone are not sufficient to sustain high levels of reqional innovation without a pervading entreprenuerial culture. For the full piece go to bit.ly/1L6gFvn

How Smart Cities enable Urban Sustainability  A very accessible piece which outlines the concept of a smart city and demonstrates how using big data and modern technology helps cities tackle environmental issues through a focus on transportation, weather patterns, water consumption and more. To read the full piece go to bit.ly/1PnAmxH

Universities Partnering with Cities to research more sustainable environments On a similar theme, this piece from Mike Hower reports a major new grant to the University oof Minnesota to bring together a network of scientists, industry leaders and policy parrtners across 9 universities and major metropolitan areas in the US and India with the aim of re-imagining urban infrastrucure in such areas as energy grids, road networks, green spaces and food and water systems. Read more at bit.ly/1DThGEo

Connecting Cities and Universities at Stategic Frontiers  PASCAL's upcoming international confernce which picks up several of the themes identified above takes place in Catania in October. Registration is open now. For more go to the PASCAL Conference website or follow  #PASCAL2015 on Twitter