Skip to main content

Leading the Entrepreneurial University: Meeting the Entrepreneurial Development Needs of Higher Education Institutions

  • Chapter
Book cover Universities in Change

Abstract

The paper has an innovation focus in that it constitutes part of the preparation for the development of the Entrepreneurial University Leaders Programme (www.eulp.co.uk) which was launched in 2010 by the UK’s National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE), now renamed the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE), and the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. The paper demonstrates the thinking and concept behind the program.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    The extensive referencing is designed to demonstrate that wide global context of the issues discussed. The authors thank Klara Capova of Durham University for her invaluable assistance in conducting an extensive bibliographical search.

  2. 2.

    See, for example, the cross country analysis in IHEP (2009).

  3. 3.

    Derived from Lawrence and Lorsch (1986), Covin and Slevin (1991) and Gibb (1985). Acknowledgement also to Professor Antti Paasio of the University of Turku Finland who provided the germ of the idea. While the arrows on the Simple/Complex and Certain/Uncertain matrix point in one direction it is possible for a university to move from any one segment to another.

  4. 4.

    Student protests across the UK. BBC News Wednesday November 5 (2008).

  5. 5.

    See, for example, the work of Students in Free Enterprise (www.sife.org), European Confederation of Junior Enterprises (JADE) (www.jadenet.org), and National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE) (www.nacue.org).

  6. 6.

    For example, in Finland the government has introduced an incentive program to raising of finance by leveraging private with public funding.

  7. 7.

    In the UK the Dearing report (1997) (Higher Education in the Learning Society) led to the streamlining of boards.

Bibliography

  • Agrawal A (2001) University-to-industry knowledge transfer: literature review and un-answered questions. Int J Manage Rev 3(4):285–302

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Alaasarela E, Fallemies M, Halkosaari T, Huhta T, Jansson L, Jylha E, Lahtela M, Nivala K, Nokso-Koiovisto P, Telkki M (2002) Higher education as a pathway to entrepreneurship. Keski-Pohjanmann Ammatikorkeakoulu, Finland

    Google Scholar 

  • Albert M (2003) Universities and the market economy: the differential impact on knowledge production in sociology and economics. High Educ 45:147–182

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Albert P, Gaynor L (2001) Incubators—growing up, moving out. A review of the literature. Chair of High Tech Entrepreneurship, CERAM, December 2001

    Google Scholar 

  • Alperovitz G, Howard T (2005) The next wave: building a university civic engagement service for the twenty-first century. J High Educ Outreach Engagem 10(2):141

    Google Scholar 

  • Altbach PG, Knight J (2006) The Internationalization of higher education: motivations and realities. The NEA 2006 Almanac of Higher Education. NEA, Washington

    Google Scholar 

  • Altbach PG (2005) Globalization and the university: Myths and realities in an unequal world. EPI, 2005. Global Higher Education Rankings. Affordability and Accessibility in Comparative Perspective. Washington, EPI, www.educationalpolicy.org

  • Amaral A, Magalhaes A (2003) The triple crisis of the University and its reinvention. High Educ Policy 16:239–253

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Arbo P, Benneworth P (2008) Understanding the regional contribution of higher education institutions: a literature review. A research report prepared for the OECD Institutional Management in Higher Education Programme The contribution of higher education to regional development. OECD Paris

    Google Scholar 

  • Armbruster C (2008) Research Universities: autonomy and self-reliance after the Entre-preneurial University. Policy Futures Educ 6(4):372–389

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • AUQA (2005) Proceedings of the Australian Universities quality forum engaging communities, Sydney, Australia, 6–8th July 2005 AUQA Occasional Publications Number 5. Melbourne. Australia. Universities Quality Agency

    Google Scholar 

  • Baade RA, Sundberg JO (1996) What determines alumni generosity? Econ Educ Rev 15(1):75–81

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baar NA (1998) Higher education in Australia and Britain—what lessons? Australian Economic Review, 31(2):179–188. LSE Research Online, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Baldini N et al (2006) Institutional changes and the commercialization of academic knowledge: A study of Italian universities’ patenting activities between 1965 and 2002. Res Policy 35(2006):518–532

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barnett R (2000) University knowledge in an age of supercomplexity. High Educ 40:409–422

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barrie SC (2007) A conceptual framework for the teaching and learning of generic graduate attributes. Stud High Educ 32(4):439–458

    Google Scholar 

  • Barsony J (2003) Towards the Entrepreneurial University. SEFI 2003 Conference—global engineer: education and training for mobility

    Google Scholar 

  • Bass B, Riggio RE (2008) Transformational leadership. Taylor and Francis, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Becher T, Trowler PR (2007) Academic tribes and territories. Intellectual enquiry and the culture of disciplines, Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Benner M, Sandstrom U (2000) Institutionalizing the triple helix: research funding and norms in the academic system. Research Policy 29(2000):291–301

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bergek A, Norrman C (2008) Incubator best practice: a framework. Technovation 28(2008):20–28

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Berglund E (2008) I wanted to be an academic, Not ‘A creative’: notes on Universities and the new capitalism. Ephemera Theory Politics Organization 8(3):232–233

    Google Scholar 

  • Bernasconi A (2005) University entrepreneurship in a developing country: the case of the P. Universidad Católica de Chile, 1985–2000. Higher Education 50(2):247–274 (Sep 2005)

    Google Scholar 

  • Bird BJ, Allen DN (1989) Faculty entrepreneurship in research university environments. J High Educ 60(5):583–596 (Sep–Oct 1989)

    Google Scholar 

  • Blackmore P, Blackwell P (2006) Strategic leadership in academic development. Stud High Educ 31(3):373–387

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bleiklie I, Kogan M (2007) Organization and governance of universities. High Educ Policy 2007(20):477–493

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Blenker P et al. (2006) Entrepreneurship education—the new challenge facing the universities. Department of management. Aarhus School of Business Working Paper 2006–02. Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus

    Google Scholar 

  • Bleiklie I, Kogan M (2007) Organisation and governance of universities. High Educ Policy 20:261–274

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bloom GM (2006) The social entrepreneurship collaboratory (SE Lab): a university incubator for a rising generation of leading social entrepreneurs. The Hauser Center for Non-profit Organizations and The John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University. Working Paper No. 31, Harvard 2006

    Google Scholar 

  • Boucher G, Conway C, Van Der Meer E (2003) Tiers of engagement by universities in their region’s development. Reg Stud 37(9):887–897

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bok D (2003) Universities in the market place. The commercialisation of higher education. Princeton University Press, USA

    Google Scholar 

  • Bourdieu P (1999) Social conditions of the international circulation of ideas. In: Shusterman R (ed) Bourdieu. A critical reader, Blackwell Publishers, UK, pp 220–229

    Google Scholar 

  • Braun G, Diensberg C (2007) Cultivating entrepreneurial regions—Cases and studies from the network project, baltic entrepreneurship partners. Rostock Contributions to Regional Science, Vol. 19. Rostock: Universität Rostock, Wirtschafts- und Sozial-wissen-schaftliche Fakultät

    Google Scholar 

  • Bridges D, Jonathan R (2003) Education and the market, Chapter 7. In: Blake N, Smeyers P, Smith R, Standish P (eds) The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education, Blackwell Publishing Limited

    Google Scholar 

  • Bridgman T (2007) Freedom and autonomy in the university enterprise. J Organ Change Manage 20(4):478–490

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Browne T, Jenkins M (2008) Achieving academic engagement? The landscape for educational technology support in two UK institutions. Proceedings ascilite Melbourne 2008: Concise paper: Browne and Jenkins

    Google Scholar 

  • Brush CG et al (2003) Doctoral education in the field of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship J Manage 29(3):309–331

    Google Scholar 

  • Bryman A (2007) Effective leadership in higher education: a literature review. Stud High Educ 32(6):693–710

    Google Scholar 

  • Casson M (1982) The entrepreneur. An economic theory. Martin Robertson and Co. Ltd, Oxford

    Google Scholar 

  • Campbell WH et al (2002) Institutional and faculty roles and responsibilities in the emerging environment of University-Wide interdisciplinary research structures: report of the 2001–2002 research and graduate affairs committee. American Journal of Education, Vol. 66, Winter Supplement 2002

    Google Scholar 

  • Carnoy M (1999) Globalization and educational reform: what planners need to know. Paris: UNESCO: International Institute for Educational Planning

    Google Scholar 

  • CEL (2008) Research on diversity and governance in the FE sector recommendations and action plan

    Google Scholar 

  • CEL (2007) Leadership kills for governance. 2008–2009 programme and support guide, CEL: http://www.centreforexcellence.org.uk

  • CEL (2006) World-class leadership for global excellence. CEL: http://www.centreforexcellence.org.uk

  • Chan KF, Lau T (2005) Assessing technology incubator programs in the science park the good, the bad and the ugly. Technovation 25(2005):1215–1228

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chan D, Lo W (2007) Running universities as enterprises: university governance changes in Hong Kong. Asia Pacific J Educ 27(3):305–322

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chapple W, Lockett A, Siegel D, Wright M (2004) Assessing the relative performance of UK university technology transfer offices: parametric and non-parametric evidence. Department of economics, rensselaer polytechnic institute. Working Papers in Economics, No. 0423. Source: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/economics/www/workingpapers

  • Charles DR (2006) Universities as key knowledge infrastructures in regional innovation systems. Innovation 19(1):117–130

    Google Scholar 

  • Charles D (2003) Universities and territorial development: reshaping the regional role of UK universities. Local Economy 18(1):7–20

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Charney A, Libecap GD (2000) Impact of entrepreneurial education. Insight. A Kauffman research series. Kauffman, Kansas 09005500

    Google Scholar 

  • Chen S (2007) The features and trends of University development in Australia and China. High Educ Policy 20:223–242

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cherwitz AR (2005) Creating a culture of intellectual entrepreneurship, Academe 91, 5

    Google Scholar 

  • Cherwitz AR (2002) Intellectual entrepreneurship. A vision for graduate education. Change, November/December

    Google Scholar 

  • Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE) and the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) (2008) Leadership in the Age of Supercomplexity, CIHE London

    Google Scholar 

  • Clark BR (1998) Creating entrepreneurial universities, organisational pathways of trans-formation. Pergamon IAU Press, Oxford

    Google Scholar 

  • Clark BR (2004a) Sustaining change in universities, society for research into higher education. Open University Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Clark BR (2004b) Delineating the character of the entrepreneurial university. High Educ Policy 17:355–370

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Coaldrake P (2001) Responding to changing student expectations. Expect High Educ Manage 13(2):75–93 OECD

    Google Scholar 

  • Coaldrake P, Stedman L (1999) Academic work in the twenty-first century. Changing roles and policies. Higher Education Division, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs Occasional Paper Series. Australia, Higher Education Division, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs: 99H

    Google Scholar 

  • Cook T, Dwek TR, Blumberg B, Hockaday T (2008) Commercialising university research: threats and opportunities-The Oxford Model. Capitalism and Society, Vol. 3, Issue 1 2008 Article 4

    Google Scholar 

  • CVCP (1999) Technology transfer. The US experience, Report of a Mission of UK Vice Chancellors, Gatsby Trust London

    Google Scholar 

  • Commission of the European Communities (2005) Mobilising the brainpower of Europe; enabling universities to make their full contribution to the Lisbon Strategy, Brussels

    Google Scholar 

  • Courtney H, Kirkland J, Viguerie P (1999) Strategy under uncertainty, chapter 1 in Harvard business review Managing Uncertainty on’. Harvard Business School Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Covin JG, Slevin DP (1991) A conceptual model of entrepreneurship as firm behaviour Entrepreneurship. Theory Pract 16:7–25

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Corbett A (2006) Universities and the Europe of knowledge: ideas, institutions and policy Entrepreneurship in the European Union, Higher Education Policy, 1955–2005. Palgrave Ma, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Crow MM (2008) Building an Entrepreneurial University, in The future of the research university. meeting the challenges of the global C 21st University. Paper to 2008 Kauffman-Planck summit on Entrepreneurship research and policy held June 8–11, in Bavaria, Germany. pp 31–41

    Google Scholar 

  • Cranmer S (2006) Enhancing graduate employability: best intentions and mixed outcomes. Stud High Educ 31(2):169–184

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • CUC (2000) Review of University Governance 1997–2000. CUC: http://www.shef.ac.uk/cuc/pubs.html

  • CUC (1999) Progress report of the working party on the effectiveness of university governing bodies. CUC: http://www.shef.ac.uk/cuc/pubs.html

  • Cunningham BM, Cochi-Ficano CK (2000) The determinants of donative revenue flows from Alumni of higher education: an empirical inquiry. J Hum Resour 37(3):540–569 (Summer, 2002)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Currie J (2002) Australian universities as enterprise universities: transformed players on a global stage. In: Globalisation: what issues are at stake for universities? Université Laval, Québec Canada, 20 Sept

    Google Scholar 

  • Darling AL, England MD, Lang DW, Lopers–Sweetman R (1989) Autonomy and control: a university funding formula as an instrument of public policy. Higher Education, 18, pp 559–583, Kluwer Netherlands

    Google Scholar 

  • Daumard P (2001) Enterprise culture and university culture. High Educ Manage 13(2):67–75 OECD

    Google Scholar 

  • Davies JL (2001) The emergence of entrepreneurial cultures in European Universities. High Educ Manage 13(2):25–45 OECD

    Google Scholar 

  • De Ziwa D (2005) Using entrepreneurial activities as a means of survival: investigating the processes used by Australian Universities to diversify their revenue streams. High Educ 50(3):387–411

    Google Scholar 

  • Dearing R (1997) Report of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, Higher Education in the Learning Society (The Dearing Report). July. HMSO, Norwich UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Deem R (1998) ‘New managerialism’ and higher education: the management of performances and cultures in universities in the United Kingdom. Int Stud Sociol Educ 8(1):47–70

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Deem R (2001) Globalisation, new managerialism, academic capitalism and entre-preneurialism in universities: is the local dimension important? Comp Educ 37(1):7–20

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Deema R (2007) Managing contemporary UK universities-manager-academics and new managerialism, Academic Leadership. Empirical Research pp 1–14 (www.academicleadership.org/empirical_research/Managing_Contemporray_UK)

  • Deema R, Ka Ho Mokb, Lucasa L (2008) Transforming higher education in whose Image? Exploring the concept of the ‘World-Class’ University in Europe and Asia. High Educ Policy 21:83–97

    Google Scholar 

  • Delanty G (2003) Ideologies of the knowledge society and the cultural contradictions of higher education. Policy Futures Educ 1(1)

    Google Scholar 

  • Delanty G (2001) Challenging knowledge. The university in the knowledge society. SRHE and Open University Press Imprint, Buckingham

    Google Scholar 

  • Dill DD (1995) University-industry entrepreneurship: the organization and management of American University technology transfer units. High Educ 29(4):369–384

    Google Scholar 

  • Dooley L, Kirk D (2007) University-industry collaboration. Grafting the entrepreneurial paradigm onto academic structures. Eur J Innovation Manage 10(3):316–332

    Google Scholar 

  • Douglas JA (2008) The big curve: trends in university fees and financing in the EU and US. CSHE centre for studies in higher education. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.19.08

    Google Scholar 

  • Doutriaux J, Barker M (1996) University and industry in Canada. A changing relationship. Ind Higher Educ 10(1):88–103

    Google Scholar 

  • Duberley J, Cohen L, Leeson E (2007) Entrepreneurial academics: developing scientific careers in changing University settings. High Educ Q 61(4):479–497

    Google Scholar 

  • Dulewicz V (2000) Emotional intelligence. The key to successful corporate leadership. J Gen Manage 25:1–15

    Google Scholar 

  • Durham University Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning Durham University Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (2009) A study of graduate aspirations to and understanding of entrepreneurial behaviour. Durham UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Edwards L (2001) Are E-Clubs the answer to entrepreneurial learning? WEI working Paper Series No. 17

    Google Scholar 

  • Epitropaki O (2001) What is transformational leadership. Institute of Work Psychology, Sheffield England

    Google Scholar 

  • ESECT (2005) Enhancing student employability, Higher Education Academy. Learning and Employability Series

    Google Scholar 

  • Etzkowitz H, Leydesdorff L (2000) The dynamics of innovation: from National System and “Mode 2” to a Triple Helix of university-industry-government-relations. Res Policy 29(2000):109–123

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Etzkowitz H (2003) Research groups as ‘quasi-firms’: the invention of the entrepreneurial university. Research Policy 32:109–121

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Etzkowitz H (2004) The evolution of the entrepreneurial university. Int J Technol Globalisation 1(1):64–77

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Etzkowitz H (2008) The Triple Helix. University– Industry—Government, Innovation in Action, Routledge, London

    Google Scholar 

  • European Commission (1998) Promoting Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness, Brussels, September COM (1998) 550 final

    Google Scholar 

  • European Commission (2005) The Competitiveness Challenge. Enterprise Europe, Jan–March

    Google Scholar 

  • EU, Directorate-General for Enterprise (2004) Helping to create an entrepreneurial culture. A guide on good practices in promoting entrepreneurial attitudes and skills through education. Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry. Brussels: EU, Unit B.1: Entrepreneurship (SC27 3/4)

    Google Scholar 

  • EU (2006) Entrepreneurship Education in Europe. Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindsets through Education and Learning. Final Proceedings of the Oslo Conference 27–27 October, European Commission

    Google Scholar 

  • EU Commission of the European Communities (2006) Implementing the community Lisbon programme: fostering entrepreneurial mindsets through education and learning. Brussels, EU, COM (2006) 33 final

    Google Scholar 

  • EU Commission of the European Communities (2008) Towards more knowledge-based policy and practice in education and training. Brussels, EU, SEC (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  • EU Commission of the European Communities (2008) Entrepreneurship in higher education, especially within non-business studies. Final Report of the Expert Group. Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry. Brussels: EU, Unit B.1: Entrepreneurship

    Google Scholar 

  • Finlay I (2004) Living in an entrepreneurial university. Res Post Compuls Educ 9(3):417–434

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Franklin SJ, Wright M, Lockett A (2001) Academic and Surrogate Entrepreneurs in University Spin-out companies. J Technol Trans 26:127–141

    Google Scholar 

  • Frooman J (1999) Stakeholder influence strategies. Acad Manage Rev 24(2):191–205

    Google Scholar 

  • Geiger RL (2004) Knowledge and money: research Universities and the Paradox of the market place. Stanford University Press, US

    Google Scholar 

  • Geiger RL (2006) The quest for; economic relevance by US research universities. High Educ Policy 19:411–431

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Geuna A, Muscio A (2008) The governance of University knowledge transfer. SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series. Paper No. 173, September 2008

    Google Scholar 

  • Gibb AA, Scott M (1985) Strategic awareness, personal commitment and the process and planning in the small business. J Manage Stud 22(6)

    Google Scholar 

  • Gibb AA (2007) Entrepreneurship: unique solutions for unique environments. Is it possible to achieve this with the Existing Paradigm? Int J Entrepreneurship Educ 5:93–142. Senate Hall Academic Publishing

    Google Scholar 

  • Gibb AA, Hannon P (2006) Towards the Entrepreneurial University? Int J Entrepreneurship Education 4:73–110

    Google Scholar 

  • Gibbons M, Limoges C, Nowatny H, Schwartzman S, Scott P, Trow M (1994) The new production od knowledge. Sage Publications, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Gilbert AD (2000) The Idea of a University beyond 2000. Policy Autumn 2000:31–36

    Google Scholar 

  • Goffee R, Jones G (2007) Leading clever people. Harvard Business Review, Reprint R0703D

    Google Scholar 

  • Graham G (2002) Universities. The Recovery of an Idea, Imprint Academic UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Green M, Baer M (2000) What does globalisation mean for teaching and learning? CHET Transformation Debates July 21

    Google Scholar 

  • Green FJ, Saridakis G (2008) The role of higher education skills and support in graduate self-employment. Stud High Educ 33(6):653–672

    Google Scholar 

  • Greenaway D, Haynes M (2003) Funding higher education in the UK: the role of fees and loans. The Economic Journal 113:F150–F166 Blackwell Publishing UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Greenhalgh R (2008) Perspectives on management and Leadership from HE and Industry, pp 17–21 in: Leadership in an Age of Supercomplexity, Edited by Keith Herrmann. CIHE and SRHE

    Google Scholar 

  • Guerrero-Cano M (2008) The creation and development of Entrepreneurial Universities in Spain. An Institutional approach, Doctoral Thesis Universitat Automona Barcelona Spain

    Google Scholar 

  • Gupta V, MacMillan IC, Surie G (2004) Entrepreneurial leader leadership; developing and measuring a cross- cultural construct. J Bus Ventur 19:241–260

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Habermas J, Blazek JR (1987) The idea of the University: learning processes. New German Critique, No. 41, Special Issue on the Critiques of the Enlightenment (Spring–Summer, 1987), pp 3–22

    Google Scholar 

  • Hager P, Hyland T (2003) Vocational Education and Training, Chapter 15. In: Blake N, Smeyers P, Smith R, Standish P (eds) The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education, Blackwell Publishing Limited

    Google Scholar 

  • Haggis T (2006) Pedagogies for diversity: retaining critical challenges amidst fears of dumbing down. Stud High Educ 31(5):521–535

    Google Scholar 

  • Hayrinen-Alestalo M (1999) The university under the pressure of Innovation policy—reflecting on European and Finnish experiences. Sci Stud 12(1):44–69

    Google Scholar 

  • Hearn JC (2003) Diversifying campus revenue streams. Opportunities and risks, American Council of Education, Center for Policy Analysis; USA

    Google Scholar 

  • Henkel M (2004) Current science policies and their implications for the formation and maintenance of academic identity. High Educ Policy 17:167–182

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Herrmann K (ed) (2008) Leadership in an age of Supercomplexity. Council for Industry in Higher Education, UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Higher Education in Europe (2004) Entrepreneurship in Europe Vol. XXIX no. 2 Carfax Publishing

    Google Scholar 

  • Hughes A (2003) Knowledge Transfer, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth, ESRC Centre for Business Research Working Paper 273, University Of Cambridge Small Business and Entrepreneurship

    Google Scholar 

  • Huisman J (2008) World-Class Universities, Higher Education Policy, Vol. 21, (1–4) International Association of Universities 0952-8733/08 $30.00. ww.palgrave-journals.com/hep

    Google Scholar 

  • IHEP (2007) Regional Universities and Civil Society Development. A Symposium and Study Tour. IHEP, Washington

    Google Scholar 

  • IHEP (2009) Privatization in higher education: cross-country analysis of trends, policies, problems, and solutions. Issue Brief. IHEP, Washington

    Google Scholar 

  • International Association of Universities (2005) Key results: 2005 IAU Global survey on internationalisation of higher education. www.unesco.org

  • Jack SL, Anderson AR (1999) Entrepreneurship education within the enterprise culture. Int J Entrepreneurial Behav Res 5(3):110–125

    Google Scholar 

  • Jacob M, Lundqvist M, Hellsmark H (2003) Entrepreneurial transformations in the Swedish University system: the case of Chalmers University of Technology. Res Policy 32(2003):1555–1568

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Johnson RN, Deem R (2003) Talking of students: tensions and contradictions for the manager-academic and the university in contemporary higher education. High Educ 46:289–314

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ka Ho Mok (2005) Fostering entrepreneurship: changing role of government and higher education governance in Hong Kong. Res Policy 34(2005):537–554

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kauffman Foundation (2008) The future of the Research University. Meeting the global challenges of the 21st Century. Conference papers from the Kauffmann-Max Planck Annual Summit Rethinking the Role of the University and Public Research for the Entrepreneurial Age, June 8–11 Bavaria Germany

    Google Scholar 

  • Keast DA (1995) Entrepreneurship in universities: definitions, practices, and implications. High Educ Q 49(3):248–266

    Google Scholar 

  • Kelly G, Mulgan G, Muers S (2007) Creating public value. An analytical framework for public service reform, Strategy Unit, Cabinet office, UK Government (www.strategy.gov.uk)

  • Kilgour FG (1992) Entrepreneurial Leadership. Library Trends 40(3):457–74 (Winter 1992)

    Google Scholar 

  • Kinchin IM, Lygo-Baker S, Hay DB (2008) Universities as centres of non-learning. Stud High Educ 33(1):89–103

    Google Scholar 

  • Kirp DL (2003) Shakespeare, Einstein and the bottom line. The marketing of higher education. Harvard University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Kirby D (2006) Creating entrepreneurial universities in the UK. Applying entrepreneurship theory in practice. J Technol Transfer 31:599–603

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Klofsten M, Jones-Evans D (2000) Training entrepreneurship at universities: a Swedish case. J Eur Ind Training 24(6):337–344

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kneale P (2005) Imaginative curriculum guide. Enterprise in the higher education curriculum. Higher Education Academy, UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Knight J (2003) Internationalization of higher education practices and priorities: 2003 IAU survey report. IAU: http://www.unesco.org/iau

  • Kohler J, Huber J (eds) (2006) Higher education governance between democratic culture, academic aspirations and market forces. Council of Europe Publishing, Strasbourg

    Google Scholar 

  • Kolsaker A (2008) Academic professionalism in the managerialist era: a study of English universities. Stud High Educ 33(5):513–525

    Google Scholar 

  • Kristensen B (1999) The entrepreneurial university as a learning university. High Educ Europe 24(1):35–46

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kuratko DF, Hornsby JS (1999) Corporate entrepreneurial leadership for the 21st Century. J Leadersh Organisational Stud 5(2):27–39

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kwiek M (2001) Globalization and higher education, higher education in Europe, Vol. XXVI(1)

    Google Scholar 

  • Kwiek M (2000) The nation-state, globalization and the modern institution of the university. Theoria. J Soc Polit Theory 96:74–99

    Google Scholar 

  • Kweik M (2005) Academic Entrepreneurship and private higher education in Europe (in a comparative perspective), Center for Public Policy. Policy Poznan University, Ul. Szamarz-ews-kiego 89, 60–569 Poznan, Poland. kwiekm@amu.edu.pl, www.cpp.amu.edu.pl

  • Kwiek M (2005) The university and the state in a global age: renegotiating the traditional social contract? Eur Educ Res J 4(4):324–341

    Google Scholar 

  • Kweik M (2008) Academic entrepreneurship vs. changing governance and institutional management, structures at European Universities. Policy Futures Educ 6(6):757–770

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lambert R (2003) Lambert review of business-industry collaboration. HMSO Norwich, UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Lawrence PR, Lorsch JW (1986) Organisation and environment: environment managing differentia-tion and integration, Harvard Business School Classics

    Google Scholar 

  • Lazzeroni M, Piccaluga A (2003) Towards the entrepreneurial university. Local Economy 18(1):38–48

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lee YS (1996) Technology transfer and the research university: a search for the boundaries of university-industry collaboration. Res Policy 25(1996):843–863

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lehrera M, Nell P, Gärber L (2009) A national systems view of university entrepreneurialism: Inferences from comparison of the German and US experience. Res Policy 38:268–280

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Leisner A (2006) Education or service? Remarks on teaching and learning in the entrepreneurial university. Educ Philos Theory 38(4)

    Google Scholar 

  • Leitch S (2006) Prosperity for all in the global economy-world class skills. HMSO Norwich, UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Leslie LL, Ramey G (1998) Donor behaviour and voluntary support for higher education institutions. J High Educ 59(2):115–132

    Google Scholar 

  • Leydesdorff L, Etzkowitz H (2003) The Triple Helix as a model for innovation studies. (Conference Report). Sci Public Policy 25(3):195–203

    Google Scholar 

  • Leydesdorff L, Meyer M (2003) The Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations. Scientometrics 58(2):191–203

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Li-Chuan C (2004) The relationship between university autonomy and funding in England and Taiwan. High Educ 48(2):189–212

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Link AN (2006) An empirical analysis of the propensity of academics to engage in informal university technology transfer. Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Working Papers in Economics, No. 0610 Source Phan, P. H., Siegel, D. S. 2006, The Effectiveness of University Technology Transfer. Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship 2(2):77–144. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/economics/www/workingpapers

  • Lombardi JV (2002) University organization, governance, and competitiveness. An Annual Report from The Lombardi program on measuring university performance

    Google Scholar 

  • Ma R (2000) Enterprise education and its relationship to enterprising behaviours. A methodological and conceptual investigation. PhD Thesis Durham University UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Maak T (2007) Responsible leadership, Stakeholder engagement, and the emergence of social capital. J Bus Ethics 74:329–343

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Maskell D, Robinson I (2001) The new idea of a university. Imprint Academic, Thorverton

    Google Scholar 

  • Mawditt R (1998) Lest we forget. High Educ Policy 11:323–330

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Maunter G (2005) The entrepreneurial university. A discursive profile of a higher education profile. Crit Discourse Stud 2(2):95–120

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mcinnis C (2001) Promoting academic expertise and authority in an entrepreneurial culture. High Educ Manage 13(2):45–57. OECD

    Google Scholar 

  • Mendes T, Estabrook L, Magelli P, Conlin K (2006) How academics really view entre-preneurship and Entrepreneurial behavior: A study of 2,000 faculty, 10,000 graduate students and 100 Academic administrators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University of Illinois, USA

    Google Scholar 

  • Mendoza P, Berger JB (2005) Patenting productivity and intellectual property policies at research I Universities: an exploratory comparative study. Educ Policy Anal Arch 13(4)

    Google Scholar 

  • Meyer LH, Evans IM (2007) Supporting academic staff: meeting new expectations in higher education without compromising traditional faculty values. High Educ Policy 20:121–144

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miclea M (2004) Learning to do as a pillar of education and its links to entrepreneurial studies in highereducation: European contexts and approaches. High Educ Eur 29(2):221–231

    Google Scholar 

  • Miller, M. T. and Katz, M. (2004). Effective shared governance: academic governance as a win–win proposition. The NEA 2004 Almanac of Higher Education. NEA, Washington

    Google Scholar 

  • Minshall T, Wicksteed B (2005) University spin-out companies: starting to fill the evidence gap. A report on a pilot research project commissioned by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, St. John’s Innovation Centre Ltd

    Google Scholar 

  • Mittelstädt A, Cerri F (2008) Fostering Entrepreneurship for Innovation. OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, 2008/5. OECD publishing, 10.1787/227624785873

  • Mohrman K et al (2008) The Research University in transition: the emerging global model. High Educ Policy 2008(21):5–27

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Moore MH (1995) Creating public value: strategic management in government. Harvard University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Mora J-G, Vieira M-J (2009) Governance, organisation change and Entrepreneurialism: is there a connection.In: Shattock M (ed) Entrepreneurialism in the Universities and the Knowledge Economy. Open University Press, pp 74–100

    Google Scholar 

  • Moreland N (2007) Entrepreneurship and higher education: an employability perspective. The Higher Education Academy, UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Moses I (2005) Institutional autonomy revisited. Autonomy justified and accounted. High Educ Policy 19:411–431

    Google Scholar 

  • National Academy of Science USA (2005) Facilitating interdisciplinary research. National Academies Press, Washington

    Google Scholar 

  • Namen JL, Slaven DP (1993) Entrepreneurship and the concept of fit: a model and empirical tests. Strateg Manag J 14:137–153

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Navarro JR, Gallardo FO (2003) A model of strategic change: universities and dynamic capabilities. High Educ Policy 16:199–212

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Neave G (1998) Growing pains: the Dearing Report from a European Perspective. High Educ Q 52(1):118–136

    Google Scholar 

  • Nicolaou N, Birley S (2003) Social networks in organizational emergence: the university spinout phenomenon. Manage Sci 49(12):1702–1725

    Google Scholar 

  • NIRAS Consultants (2008) Survey of entrepreneurship in higher education in Europe, FORA, ECON Pöyry

    Google Scholar 

  • Noir sur Blanc (1999) Survey. Internationalisation of Universities. Development Strategies, Noir sur Blanc. Paris

    Google Scholar 

  • Nowotny H, Scott P, Gibbons M (2001) Re-Thinking science. Knowledge and the public in the age of uncertainty. Polity Press, USA

    Google Scholar 

  • Nowotny H, Scott P, Gibbons M (2003) Mode 2 revisited: the new production of knowledge. Minerva 41:179–194

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • OECD (2001) Journal of the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education Management. Special Issue: Education and Skills, Vol. 13, No. 2. Paris: OECD Publishing

    Google Scholar 

  • OECD (2003) Changing patterns of governance in higher education. In: Education policy analysis. pp 59–78

    Google Scholar 

  • OECD (2004) The Internationalisation of Higher Education. Policy Brief August OECD Publishing

    Google Scholar 

  • OECD (2005) Higher Education Management and Policy. Special Issue: Entrepreneurship, Vol. 17, No. 3. Paris: OECD Publishing. In particular: entrepreneurial universities and the development of regional societies: a spatial view of the Europe of knowledge, pp 59–86

    Google Scholar 

  • OECD (2007) Entrepreneurship Special Issue of Journal of Education Management and Policy, Vol. 17, No. 3-Special Issue. OECD Publishing

    Google Scholar 

  • O’Shea RP et al (2007) Delineating the anatomy of an entrepreneurial university: the Massachusetts institute of technology experience. R&D Management 37:1

    Google Scholar 

  • Olssen M, Peters MA (2005) Neoliberalism, higher education and the knowledge economy: from the free market to knowledge capitalism. J Educ Policy 20(3):313–345

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Owen-Smith J et al. (2002) A comparison of US and European university-industry relations in the life sciences. Manage Sci 48(1):24–43

    Google Scholar 

  • Pan S-Y (2007) Intertwining of academia and officialdom and university autonomy: experience from Tsinghua university in China. High Educ Policy 20:207–216

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Papayannakis L, Kastelli I, Damigos D, Mavrotas G (2008) Fostering entrepreneurship education in engineering curricula in Greece. Experiences and challenges for a technical University. Eur J Eng Educ 33(2):199–210

    Google Scholar 

  • Peters MA (2003) Classical political economy and the role of universities in the new knowledge economy. Globalisation Soc Educ 1(2):153–168

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pilbeam C (2008) Designing an entrepreneurial university in an institutional setting. High Educ Policy 21:393–404

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pirnay F et al (2003) Toward a typology of university spin-offs. Small Bus Econ 21:355–369

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Poh-Kam W, Yuen-Ping H, Singh A (2007) Towards an entrepreneurial university, model to support knowledge -based economic development: the case of the national university of Singapore. World Dev 35(6):941–958

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Politis D (2005) The process of entrepreneurial learning: a conceptual framework. Entrepreneurship in theory and practice, pp 399–424

    Google Scholar 

  • Poon TFJ, Hee Ang T (1995) Enhancing entrepreneurial spirit: a resolve for university, graduates. Manage Res News 18(1/2):31–52

    Google Scholar 

  • Pratt J (2001) Changing patterns of diversity in Europe. Lessons from an OECD study tour. High Educ Manage 13(2):93–105

    Google Scholar 

  • Prabhu GM (1999) Social entrepreneurial leadership. Career Development International 4/3:140–145 MCB University Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Rae D, Carswell M (2000) Towards a conceptual understanding of entrepreneurial learning. J Small Bus Enterp Dev 8(2)

    Google Scholar 

  • Rajan A, van Eupen P, Jaspers A (1997) Britain’s flexible labour market. What next? RS50, DfEE and CREATE, Tunbridge Wells

    Google Scholar 

  • Ravasi D, Turati C (2005) Exploring entrepreneurial learning: a comparative study of technology development projects. J Bus Ventur 20(2005):137–164

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rinne R, Koivula J (2009) The dilemmas of the changing university, Chapter 10 in Shattock, op.cit

    Google Scholar 

  • Rolfe H (2001) University strategy in an age of uncertainty: the effect of higher education funding on old and new universities. National Institute for Economic and Social Research Discussion paper 191 December

    Google Scholar 

  • Roman S, Cuestas PJ, Fenollar P (2008) An examination of the interrelationships between self-esteem, others’ expectations, family support, learning approaches and academic achievement. Stud High Educ 33(2):127–138

    Google Scholar 

  • Roos G, Fernstrom F, Gupta O (2005) National innovation systems: Finland, Sweden and Australia Compared. Learnings for Australia, Report for the Australian Business Foundation. Intellectual Capital Service Ltd. 46 Gray’s Inn Road, London. WC1X8LR. Email: intcap@intcap.com

    Google Scholar 

  • Ropke J (1998) The Entrepreneurial University. Innovation, academic knowledge creation and regional development in a globalized economy, Department of Economics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. (e-mail: roepke@wiwi.uni-marburg.de)

    Google Scholar 

  • Sa CM (2008) Interdisciplinary strategies in US research universities. Higher Education, Vol. 55, pp 537–552. Published online: 8 June 2007. Springer Science+ Business Media B.V. 2007

    Google Scholar 

  • Sainsbury (Lord) of Turville (2007) The race to the top. A review of government’s science and innovation policies. Norwich: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office

    Google Scholar 

  • Scase R (2007) Global remix. The fight for competitive advantage. Kogan Page, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Schein EH (1992) Organisational culture and leadership. Jossey Bass Publishers, San Francisco

    Google Scholar 

  • Schonfield A (2009) What is an effective and high performing governing body in UK higher education? LFHE: http://www.lfhe.ac.uk/publications

  • Schuetze HG (2007) Research universities and the spectre of academic capitalism. Minerva 45:435–443

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schumpeter JA (1934) Theory of economic development. Harvard Uni-versity Press, Development Cambridge Mass

    Google Scholar 

  • Segal QW (1985) The Cambridge phenomena. Enterprise House Histon, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Senges M (2007) Knowledge entrepreneurship in universities. Practice and strategy in the case of internet based innovation appropriation. Doctoral Thesis. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Barcelona Spain

    Google Scholar 

  • Shane S, Stuart T (2002) Organizational Endowments and the performance of University Start-Ups, Management Science, Vol. 48, No. 1, Special Issue on University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer (Jan 2002), pp 154–170

    Google Scholar 

  • Shane S (2004) Encouraging university entrepreneurship? The effect of the Bayh-Dole Act on university patenting in the United States. J Bus Ventur 19(2004):127–151

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shattock M (2000) Strategic management in European universities in an age of increasing institutional self reliance. Tert Educ Manage 6:93–104

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shattock M (ed) (2009) Entrepreneurialism in universities and the knowledge economy. Diversification and organisational change in European higher education, society for research in higher education and the Open University Press, UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Shinn T (2002) The Triple Helix and new production of knowledge: prepackaged thinking on science and technology. Soc Stud Sci 32:599

    Google Scholar 

  • Slaughter S, Leslie LL (1997) Academic capitalism. Politics, policies and the Entre-preneurial University, John Hopkins University Press, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith D (1999) The changing idea of a university’ Chap. 8. In: Smith and Langslow (eds) The idea of a university, Higher Education Policy, Series 51, Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and Philadelphia

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith HL (2007) Universities, innovation, and territorial development: a review of the evidence. Environ Plann C: Gov Policy 25:98–114

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sporn B (1996) Managing university culture: an analysis of the relationship between institutional culture and management approaches. High Educ 32(1):41–61

    Google Scholar 

  • Tadmor Z (2004) The triad research university or a post 20th century research university model. Int J Educ Adv 17(2):167–182

    Google Scholar 

  • Thomas E (2004) Increasing voluntary giving to Higher Education, Task Force Report to Government, UK Department for Education and Skills

    Google Scholar 

  • Thorn K, Soo M (2006) Latin American universities and the third Mission. Trends, challenges and policy options, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4002, August

    Google Scholar 

  • Toakley AR (2004) Globalisation. Sustainable development and universities. High Educ Policy 17:311–324

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Todorovic WZ et al. (2005) Making university departments more entrepreneurial. The perspective from within. Entrepreneurship and Innovation, May 2005, pp 115–122

    Google Scholar 

  • UNESCO (2003) Internationalisation of higher education: trends and developments since 1998. Meeting of higher education partners, background paper prepared by the international association of universities. UNESCO, Paris

    Google Scholar 

  • UNESCO (2004) Higher education in a globalized society, UNESCO education position paper. UNESCO, Paris

    Google Scholar 

  • UNESCO (2007) Main transformations, challenges and emerging patterns in higher education systems. UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge Occasional Paper Series Paper no. 16. UNESCO, Paris

    Google Scholar 

  • Universities UK (2007) Spending Review 2007, Securing the Future, Policy Briefing Note

    Google Scholar 

  • US Department of Education (2006) A test of leadership. Charting the Future of U. S. Higher Education, A Report of the Commission Appointed by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. Washington, Online: http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/index.html

  • Vaira M (2004) Globalization and higher education organizational change: a framework for analysis. High Educ 48:483–510

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • van Vught F (2008) Mission Diversity and Reputation in Higher Education. Higher Education Policy, 2008, 21, (151–174). International Association of Universities 0952-8733/08 $30.00. www.palgrave-journals.com/hep

  • Vecchio RP (2003) Entrepreneurship and leadership: common trends and common threads. Human Resour Manage Rev 13(2003):303–327

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Viale R, Etzkowitz H (2005) Third academic revolution: Polyvalent knowledge; the “DNA” of the Triple Helix

    Google Scholar 

  • Volkmann C (2004) Entrepreneurial studies in higher education. High Educ Eur 29(2):177–185

    Google Scholar 

  • Wasser H (1990) Changes in the European University: from traditional to Entrepreneurial. High Educ Q 44(2):110–122

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Watson D (2008) Businesses or Business-like? Some thoughts on cultural convergence, pp 25–28 in Herrmann op cit

    Google Scholar 

  • Weerts DJ (2007) Toward an engagement model of institutional advancement at public colleges and universities. Int J Educ Adv 7(2)

    Google Scholar 

  • Wenger E (1998) Communities of practice: learning, meaning and identity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Westwood A (2000) Winners and losers in the World of Work. Employment policy institute and academy of enterprise. London, pp 64

    Google Scholar 

  • Williams G (2009) Finance and entrepreneurial activity in higher education in the knowledge society. Chapter 2. In: Shattock M (ed) Entrepreneurialism in universities and the knowledge economy, Open University Press. McGraw-Hill Education, pp 9–33

    Google Scholar 

  • Williams G, Kitaev I (2005) Overview of national policy contexts for entrepreneurialism in higher education institutions. High Educ Manage Policy 17(3):125–141

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Williamson T, Read E, Sarmiento T (2009) Enterprise societies—Are they necessary? Article provided by Mr. Williamson

    Google Scholar 

  • Wissema JG (2008) Towards the third generation university: managing the university in transition. Edward Elgar

    Google Scholar 

  • Ylinenpää H (2001) Science parks, clusters and regional development. Luleå University of Technology; Department of Business Administration and Social Sciences, Division of Industrial Organization & Small Business Academy. Luleå University of Technology: AR 2001: 48. Paper presented at 31st European Small Business Seminar in Dublin, Sept 12–14

    Google Scholar 

  • Zhou Ch (2008) Emergence of the entrepreneurial university in evolution of the triple helix. J Technol Manage China 3(1):109–126

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zumeta W (2007) Financing higher education access in challenging times, The NEA 2007 almanac of higher education. NEA, Washington

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Allan Gibb .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Gibb, A., Haskins, G., Robertson, I. (2013). Leading the Entrepreneurial University: Meeting the Entrepreneurial Development Needs of Higher Education Institutions. In: Altmann, A., Ebersberger, B. (eds) Universities in Change. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4590-6_2

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics