Entrepreneurial university conception: an instauration for the advancement and utilization of knowledge

Henry Etzkowitz and Chunyan Zhou

Chapter 20 in Research Handbook on the Transformation of Higher Education, 2023, pp 296-316 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: An entrepreneurial academic transformation is underway with profound implications for the university’s role. The entrepreneurial university, as an instauration for the advancement and utilization of knowledge, with a third academic mission for economic and social development, transcends and integrates education with research, in a second academic revolution. In this chapter, we discuss the entrepreneurial university conception, including the definition, features, and pre-conditions, as well as the barriers to academic entrepreneurship. While increasingly legitimated at the ideological level, the third mission struggles for acceptance in practice. Paradoxically, it is a niche phenomenon even in schools that brand themselves as an “entrepreneurial university.” Despite suffering retrogression, the entrepreneurial university is an engine of the transition to a knowledge-based society, whether leap-frogging from underdevelopment, overcoming industrial decline, or segueing a world class city’s efflorescence. Our contribution is to define the concept, discover the core elements, and distinguish the pre-conditions.

Keywords: Business and Management; Education; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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