EBOOK: Entrepreneurialism in Universities and the Knowledge Economy: Diversification and Organizational Change in European Higher Education

EBOOK: Entrepreneurialism in Universities and the Knowledge Economy: Diversification and Organizational Change in European Higher Education
Author: Michael Shattock
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2008-12-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 033523769X

How entrepreneurial are European universities? Perhaps more than is generally realised. What are the factors that encourage entrepreneurialism to flourish in research, technology transfer, teaching, regional engagement and internationalization? How do different kinds of HEIs - , comprehensive, specialist, regional or private - , address these issues? What are the conditions which stimulate or inhibit the “academic intrapreneur”? And in what forms does entrepreneurialism contribute to the knowledge economy? This book, which is the product of a major EU funded research programme and is based on twenty-seven institutional case studies, attempts to offer answers to these questions through a series of cross national thematic studies. It considers how national systemic characteristics in financial arrangements, human resource management and institutional governance impact on entrepreneurialism and suggests ways in which individual initiative can be released and universities freed up to make their contribution to the EU Lisbon Strategy.

Entrepreneurialism In Universities And The Knowledge Economy: Diversification And Organizational Change In European Higher Education

Entrepreneurialism In Universities And The Knowledge Economy: Diversification And Organizational Change In European Higher Education
Author: Shattock, Michael
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2008-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0335235719

This book, which is the product of a major EU funded research programme and is based on twenty-seven institutional case studies, attempts to offer answers to these questions through a series of cross national thematic studies.

Entrepreneurialism in Universities and the Knowledge Economy

Entrepreneurialism in Universities and the Knowledge Economy
Author: Michael Shattock
Publisher: Open University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780335235704

How entrepreneurial are European universities? Perhaps more than is generally realised. What are the factors that encourage entrepreneurialism to flourish in research, technology transfer, teaching, regional engagement and internationalization? How do different kinds of HEIs - , comprehensive, specialist, regional or private - , address these issues? What are the conditions which stimulate or inhibit the “academic intrapreneur”? And in what forms does entrepreneurialism contribute to the knowledge economy? This book, which is the product of a major EU funded research programme and is based on twenty-seven institutional case studies, attempts to offer answers to these questions through a series of cross national thematic studies. It considers how national systemic characteristics in financial arrangements, human resource management and institutional governance impact on entrepreneurialism and suggests ways in which individual initiative can be released and universities freed up to make their contribution to the EU Lisbon Strategy.

Knowledge Production in European Universities

Knowledge Production in European Universities
Author: Kwiek Marek
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2012-11-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3631624034

The book studies transformations of European universities in the context of globalization and Europeanization, the questioning of the foundations of the «Golden Age» of the Keynesian welfare state, public sector reforms, demographic changes, the massification and diversification of higher education, and the emergence of knowledge economies. Such phenomena as academic entrepreneurialism and diversified channels of knowledge exchange in European universities are linked to transformations of the state and changes in public sector services. The first, contextual part of the book studies the changing state/university relationships, and the second, empirically-informed part draws from several recent large-scale comparative European research projects.

The Entrepreneurial University

The Entrepreneurial University
Author: Lene Foss
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015-05-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317568931

Global recessions and structural economic shifts are motivating government and business leaders worldwide to increasingly look to "their" universities to stimulate regional development and to contribute to national competiveness. The challenge is clear and the question is pressing: How will universities respond? This book presents in-depth case narratives of ten universities from Norway, Finland, Sweden, UK, and the U.S. that have overcome significant challenges to develop programs and activities to commercialize scientific research, launch entrepreneurial degree programs, establish industry partnerships, and build entrepreneurial cultures and ecosystems. The universities are quite diverse: large and small; teaching and research focused; internationally recognized and relatively new; located in major cities and in emerging regions. Each case narrative describes challenges overcome, actions taken, and resulting accomplishments. This volume will be of interest to policymakers and university administrators as well as researchers and students interested in how different programs and activities can promote university entrepreneurship while contributing to economic growth in developed and developing economies.

Science, Business and Universities

Science, Business and Universities
Author: Joanna Duda
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000572196

Cooperation between science and business (S2B cooperation) is a very important issue from the points of view of the domestic economy, companies, and universities. This is mainly because such cooperation is a catalyst for faster and reliable development – not only of enterprises, but also of the entire economy. Thanks to S2B cooperation, enterprises can gain and commercialize new and ground-breaking solutions. Universities in turn can give their research a more practical dimension to increase its economic applicability, which helps universities prepare future staff to work in modern enterprises. The aim of this publication is to indicate how cooperation between universities and business can be implemented in an international dimension. It shows the role of modern universities in supporting the development of enterprise and entire economies as well as the role of modern enterprises that use resources located in universities (including knowledge resources). This unique combination has a positive impact on the results and developmental opportunities for each of them. Any potential obtained in this manner is the basis for creating a competitive advantage on the market. This book is devoted to a specific area of cooperation between enterprises and universities and will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of entrepreneurship, knowledge management, international relations, and higher education.

The Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship

The Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship
Author: Albert N. Link
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2015-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 022617834X

Universities are now in the business of managing intellectual property portfolios and commercializing discoveries from their laboratories. Much of the money universities make from this is in the form of licensing revenue and IPO-related wealth. However, managing intellectual-property portfolios is still a very new business for universities, and administrators and policymakers are still uncertain about how best to navigate the many practical and fundamental issues that arise. Written for both practitioners and academics, "The Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship "provides a clear outline of the broad set of new practices and institutions that have sprung up to manage and sell intellectual property, from university technology-transfer offices and cooperative-engineering research centers to vast research parks. To determine what makes technology transfer work, the question is approached from a variety of perspectives: historically, internationally, and from the perspectives of professors, entrepreneurs, administrators, and regulators. Some chapters offer guidelines and examples of how to foster and maintain successful research ventures from various perspectives. Others explore how developments in university technology transfer affect the public interest and inform the notion of open innovation and science. "

Entrepreneurial Universities

Entrepreneurial Universities
Author: Basilius Eberle
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2010-06-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3640645030

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensführung, Management, Organisation, Note: 2,0, Universität Augsburg (Lst. f. Organisation und Unternehmensfürung Prof. Lehmann), Veranstaltung: Proseminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Universitäten als Bildungseinrichtungen müssen sich den Herausforderungen, die ein verändertes Arbeitsumfeld, nicht zuletzt durch die Globalisierung und Dynamisie-rung der Märkte an sie stellt. Dadurch entsteht vermehrt der Druck, Studenten auf eine Lebenswirklichkeit vorzubereiten, die von zunehmender Unsicherheit und Komplexität geprägt ist (Gibb und Hannon, 2006, S. 5). Dazu gehören regelmäßige Stellenwechsel ebenso wie globale Mobilität und die Fähigkeit, sich auf fremde Kulturen einzulassen (Goshal und Gratton, 2002). In diesem Szenario kann der Universitätsabschluss nicht mehr als Garantie für eine lebenslange Anstellung angesehen werden als vielmehr als Eintrittskarte in die Arbeitswelt. Ebenso ist der Wandel unserer Gesellschaft zu einer Wissensgesellschaft nicht mehr aufzuhalten. Besonders rohstoffarme Länder wie Deutschland tun daher gut daran, den Produktionsfaktor Wissen zu fördern und seine Anwendung in Innovationen zu unter-stützen. Einen großen Beitrag zur Verbreitung des Produktionsfaktors Wissen stellen dabei die Universitäten dar. Das Problem der Universitäten ist aber, dass sie zwar sehr viel Wissen generieren und für die Gesellschaft bereitstellen, der Transfer hin zur Wirt-schaft und damit zu einer Anwendung unterbleibt aber oftmals. Um es zugespitzt zu formulieren wäre das eine Verschwendung von Steuergeldern, bei der nichts als Grund-lagenforschung herauskommt (Flueglistaller, 2004, S. 22). Doch die Universitäten haben auf den Ruf nach mehr Anwendungsbezug und Wissens-transfer reagiert: Sie sind unternehmerischer geworden (Mowery et al., 2004, Siegel, 2006). Spätestens seit dem sog. Bah-Doyle Act aus dem Jahr 1980 werden Universitä-ten vermehrt dazu angespornt, ihre Forschungsergebnisse zu vermarkten. Daher haben die Universitäten seit den 80er Jahren ihre unternehmerischen Aktivitäten auf vielen Feldern erweitert: Das Patent- und Lizenzwesen, die Schaffung von soge-nannten incubators und science-parks, sowie die Einrichtung von Transferstellen, um den Universitäten den Transfer des geschaffenen Wissens hin zu kommerzialisierbaren Produkten oder Dienstleistungen zu erleichtern. Die Hauptfrage, mit der sich diese Arbeit beschäftigt ist, ob eine Kultur des Entrepreneurships, wie sie beispielsweise an der TUM München propagiert wird wirklich zu einem verbesserten Technologietransfer von der Universität hin zur Wirtschaft führt und wie sich dieser Wissenstransfer messen lässt.

Entrepreneurial Universities

Entrepreneurial Universities
Author: João J. Ferreira
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-08-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1786432463

With an increasing focus on the knowledge and service economies, it is important to understand the role that entrepreneurial universities play through collaboration in policy and, in turn, the impact they have on policy. The authors evaluate how universities engage with communities while also balancing stakeholder considerations, and explore how universities should be managed in the future to integrate into global society effectively.