Creating Entrepreneurial Universities

by Clark, Burton R.

• ISBN13: 9780080433547
• ISBN10: 0080433545
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Emerald Group Pub Ltd

Summary

Based on field research carried out over a two year period, this book describes processes of transformation that took place over a fifteen year period in five European universities. Five common features identified - described as "organizational pathways of transformation" - are highlighted and used to frame the case-study accounts. These pathways consist of: a strengthened steering core; an extended developmental periphery; a diversified funding base; a stimulated academic heartland; and an entrepreneurial culture. Taken together, these elements help universities overcome the growing imbalance between environmental demands and university capacity to respond that is now occurring in universities internationally. As universities come under greater pressure to change their traditional character and become more innovative and entrepreneurial, the successful implementation of new managerial perspectives is important if they are to succeed. Reconciling these changes with traditional academic values provide the concepts on which the case studies are based.

Table of Contents

Chapter and section headings

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Pathways of Transformation

Entrepreneurial Pathways of University Transformation

Case Studies of European Innovative Universities

The Warwick Way: Transformation in an English Research University

The Twente Response: Construction of a Dutch Entrepreneurial University

The Strathclyde Phenomenon: Organizational Assertion of Useful Learning in Scotland

The Chalmers Thrust: Entrepreneurial Autonomy in the Swedish University System

The Joensuu Reform: Piloting Decentralized Control in Finnish Universities

University Transformation

The Problem of University Transformation

References

Index

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