244 Copyright © 2016, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 11 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8798-1.ch011 Strategic Crowdsourcing as an Emerging Form of Global Entrepreneurship ABSTRACT Entrepreneurs are looking for efective ways to internationalize their business ideas. Online crowdsourc- ing platforms enable them to access vast resources held by geographically scattered individuals with diferent backgrounds who are outside an organization’s boundaries. Entrepreneurs leverage knowledge and services from a crowd (an undefned group of web users) through an open online call for solution. Presented analysis will help to understand better the relationship between crowdsourcing business model and global entrepreneurship. Crowdsourcing process goes beyond achieving an efciency-driven economy stage. The new venture refects better competitiveness and economic-development performance. INTRODUCTION Quality Assurance and Value Management can be both assured by combining informational competencies and integral values, especially in higher education. Takayanagui (2014) defends the urgent transformation of higher education educational policies, and in scientific and techno- logical research done in countries inserted into the context of a Knowledge Society. These changes will provide sustainable processes of cognition, due to a developed research capacity, that make possible to promote a qualitative leap from the current model of education existing in universities based on professional, linear, and focused on dis- semination of repeated and repeatable knowledge, to one in which the multiplication of means of learning enable the inquiry and learning to reach and apply solutions for firms and societies. Next to universities, families play a key role in the transmission of moral values (Vallejos, 2014). The family is a fundamental pillar of society, as it allows a harmonious development of the person; as well it permits to achieving its mental, emotional, Anna Szopa Jagiellonian University, Poland Katarzyna Dorota Kopeć Tischner European University in Krakow, Poland