Delineating the Character of the Entrepreneurial University

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Title: Delineating the Character of the Entrepreneurial University
Language: English
Authors: Clark, Burton R.
Source: Higher Education Policy. Dec 2004 17(4):355-370.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 16
Publication Date: 2004
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Case Studies, Universities, Institutional Characteristics, Organizational Change, Transformational Leadership, Change Strategies
ISSN: 0952-8733
Abstract: We gain insight into the emerging character of the entrepreneurial university by pursuing empirical answers to two questions: How are such universities initially formed? And how do they sustain themselves? My 1998 book, "Creating Entrepreneurial Universities," used European cases to conceptualize five "pathways of transformation." My 2004 book, "Sustaining Change in Universities," in search of exemplars of entrepreneurial action, turns to 14 internationally distributed case studies to clarify anew these transforming steps and to suggest dynamics of change that produce a new steady state change. Drawn largely from the book's concluding chapter, this article emphasizes key features of change-promoting organization in universities and highlights the growing centrality of university-led action based on flexible and adaptive self-reliance.
Abstractor: Author
Entry Date: 2007
Access URL: https://www.palgrave-journals.com/hep/journal/v17/n4/abs/8300062a.html
Accession Number: EJ752121
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:We gain insight into the emerging character of the entrepreneurial university by pursuing empirical answers to two questions: How are such universities initially formed? And how do they sustain themselves? My 1998 book, "Creating Entrepreneurial Universities," used European cases to conceptualize five "pathways of transformation." My 2004 book, "Sustaining Change in Universities," in search of exemplars of entrepreneurial action, turns to 14 internationally distributed case studies to clarify anew these transforming steps and to suggest dynamics of change that produce a new steady state change. Drawn largely from the book's concluding chapter, this article emphasizes key features of change-promoting organization in universities and highlights the growing centrality of university-led action based on flexible and adaptive self-reliance.
ISSN:0952-8733