From Container Knowledge to Entrepreneurial Learning: The Role of Universities

Gerald Braun ()
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Gerald Braun: Hanseatic Institute of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (HIE-RO) at Rostock University, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

No 150, Working Papers from School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology

Abstract: The new quality of international competition changes the function of universities dramatically. They have to ? in addition to their traditional role as sources of ideas, knowledge and intellectual capital ? become agents of innovations, i.e. entrepreneurial universities, enhance regional development and international competitiveness. The transformation of university produced knowledge into market-oriented innovations depends on the quality of academic entrepreneurship. The article analyses two competing approaches to promote academic entrepreneurship: The 'knowledge container' and the 'entrepreneurial learning' approach ? and their foundations in neoclassical and evolutionary growth theory. The obstacles to introduce entrepreneurial learning as an educational innovation are being analysed (non-innovative university culture/history/attitudes, bureaucratic over-regulation, defence of vested rights). The article finally discusses some conditions for successful academic entrepreneurship (corporate university entrepreneurs, change agents, inter-university competition, entrepreneurial universities as learning organisations)

Keywords: Entrepreneurial university; academic entrepreneurship; container knowledge accumulation; entrepreneurial learning; educational innovations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E1 E3 F2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-ent, nep-hrm, nep-ino, nep-ipr and nep-knm
Date: 2006
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Published in Working Papers in Economics, School of Economics and Business Administration,Tallinn University of Technology (TUTWPE), Volume 21, Pages 27-42

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