Entrepreneurialism in Universities and the Knowledge Economy Diversification and Organisational Change in European Higher Education

by Shattock, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780335235711
• ISBN10: 0335235719
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-01
• Publisher: Open Univ Pr

Summary

How entrepreneurial are European universities? Perhaps more than is generally realized.

Author Biography

Michael Shattock is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London and was leader of the EUEREK project on which this book is based. He has published widely in higher education: his most recent books are Managing Successful Universities (Open University Press, 2003) and Managing Good Governance in Higher Education (Open University Press, 2006).

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xi
Tables and figures	p. xiii
Preface	p. xiv
Entrepreneurialism and organizational change in higher education	p. 1
Finance and entrepreneurial activity in higher education in a knowledge society	p. 9
Research, technology, and knowledge transfer	p. 33
Teaching and learning: an entrepreneurial perspective	p. 49
Human resource management and the generation of entreprenecurialism	p. 63
Governance, organizational change, and entrepreneurialism: is there a connection?	p. 74
Entrepreneurialism and private higher education in Europe	p. 100
Entrepreneurialism and the internationalization of higher education in a knowledge society	p. 121
Impediments, inhibitors, and barriers to university entrepreneurialism	p. 142
The dilemmas of the changing university	p. 183
Entrepreneurialism and the knowledge economy in Europe: some conclusions	p. 200
A statistical overview	p. 207
EUEREK case studies and case study authors	p. 218
Bibliography	p. 221
Index	p. 229
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