scholarly journals A meta-ethnography on HEIs’ transformation into more entrepreneurial institutions: Towards an action-framework proposition

2020 ◽  
pp. 095042222092267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Stolze

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are experiencing a challenging era due to demand–response imbalances. An assumed means of responding to the challenge is through the entrepreneurial university model, which adds a third mission to HEIs: to contribute to economic, technological and social development. Therefore, governments across the globe promote this ideal through system reforms and funding schemes, while HEIs ignite institutional changes. Publications also explore the entrepreneurial university model, although some scholars have criticized the new mission and its implied commercial orientation. However, little is still known about how HEIs are applying the model to become more entrepreneurial. Therefore, this article presents a systematic literature review comprised of a meta-ethnography on the transformation journey of 36 HEIs across 18 countries. The outcome is a four-stage iterative action-framework proposition, suggesting that exogenous and endogenous forces constantly influence HEIs which, in response, ignite experiments, requiring sensitization to be consolidated and later institutionalized, in an endless, long and rather slow process. This article contributes to theory by explaining the metalevel of HEIs’ entrepreneurial pathway process and to practice by providing policymakers and decision makers in HEIs with an analytical framework.

Author(s):  
Van Toan Dinh ◽  

Along with the advances of science and technology, higher education has had a substantial transformation towards autonomy associated with entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity. Vietnam is facing the challenges of changes in governance for public universities. From the general theory and academic literature review of the entrepreneurial university, especially in organizational structure, the article offers policy suggestions to promote university governance in line with the trend of the transformation of entrepreneurial university model for public universities in Vietnam.


2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Etzkowitz

Forged in different academic and national traditions, the university is arriving at a common entrepreneurial format that incorporates and transcends its traditional missions. The academic entrepreneurial transition arises from the confluence of the internal development of higher education institutions and external influences on academic structures associated with the emergence of ‘knowledge-based’ innovation. Policies, practices and organizational innovations designed to translate knowledge into economic activity as well as addressing problems from society have spread globally. The objective is to enable universities to play a creative role in economic and social development from an independent perspective while still being responsive to government and industry priorities. The entrepreneurial university model paradoxically includes both increased university autonomy and greater involvement of external stakeholders. However, to facilitate the successful development of the entrepreneurial university, the dominant metrics used to determine university rankings and academic performance need radical revision. This article concludes with a summary of the critical questions to be addressed by the recently launched Global Entrepreneurial University Metrics Initiative in its effort to develop a metrics system that will facilitate the evolution of the entrepreneurial university and emphasize the role of higher education in economic and social development.


Author(s):  
Arthur Rubens ◽  
Francesca Spigarelli ◽  
Alessio Cavicchi ◽  
Chiara Rinaldi

Purpose Over the past few decades, higher education institutions (HEIs) have become key players in regional economic development and knowledge transfer, which has led to a third mission for HEIs and the entrepreneurial university. The purpose of this paper is to assess the challenges of HEIs in fulfilling the third mission for economic development and the changing role of being an entrepreneurial university, and the changes that need to be implemented to fulfill this new mission. Design/methodology/approach The authors have drawn on current literature to examine academic entrepreneurism and the entrepreneurial university, and how universities are fulfilling their third mission. Findings The findings from our review of the literature demonstrated the varied economic and social benefit of universities conducting external third mission/entrepreneurial activities in the community, as well as how the changing role and expectations of universities to become more entrepreneurial, has not only changed the expectations and role of university administrators, faculty and staff but also the business community which they serve. The review also showed the varied challenges for universities in fulfilling the third mission of economic development. Research limitations/implications Although ample literature and cases about universities’ third mission of economic development and the new entrepreneurial university (especially with research universities) were available, literature or research was limited on the specific challenges and obstacles faced by administrators, faculty and departments in fulfilling this mission, and few studies recommended changes that needed to be implemented in HEIs to support this new mission. Practical/implications The paper supports the potential role that HEIs play in implementing economic development in their communities or region. The paper also highlights some of the necessary resources and policy changes that policymakers and university administrators need to implement to reward and recognize faculty in conducting outreach activities as part of the university’s third mission. Originality/value The findings from this study highlight the challenges and barriers for faculty, staff and HEIs in fulfilling the third mission and becoming an entrepreneurial university.


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 86-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. Balmasova

The importance of the supporting universities in each region is quite high, because the main purpose of creating them is to provide an efficient cooperation between the region and the system of higher education. Through the supporting universities it is possible to solve the most pressing problems facing not only regions but also the state as a whole. The interaction between higher education and regions is associated with the strengthening of the “third mission” of universities, the implementation of which makes university a key «player» in the economic and social development of a region and introduces significant changes in the university’s relations with its partners: industry, business, government, civil society institutions. The first section of the article focuses on the identification of the main parameters of the regional activities of Russian universities as active participants in the socio-economic development of region. The second section systematizes the experience of German universities on the implementation of the «third mission» in the regional context.


Author(s):  
Audrey Stolze ◽  
Klaus Sailer

AbstractHigher education institutions (HEIs), once considered among society’s most resilient institutions, are facing challenges due to changes in governments’ and society’s expectations of them. Within the sector, there is a global call for new models and practices, requiring HEIs to develop the management capabilities once reserved for businesses. In this sense, they will pave entrepreneurial pathways and contribute to economic, technological and societal developments in their regions, thus adding a third mission (engaging socio-economic needs and market demands) to the traditional two (education and research) and transforming themselves into more entrepreneurial institutions. Dynamic capabilities enable transformation processes by allowing the dynamic sensing and seizing of opportunities and risks and the promotion of iterative change and reconfiguration. Scholars have called on HEIs to develop such dynamic capabilities in order to transform themselves and better respond to their sector’s challenges. Nevertheless, the understanding of how dynamic capabilities might advance HEIs’ third mission is still an underexplored concept, and in this paper, we propose mechanisms that promise to transform dynamic capabilities into third mission advancement. We have developed numerous theoretically grounded hypotheses and tested them with a partial least squares structural equation model into which we funnelled data collected from key decision-makers at German HEIs. The results suggest that dynamic capabilities do indeed influence third mission advancement; however, this relationship is mediated by the role of leadership and organisational agreement on vision and goals.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Selly Novela ◽  
Rizal Syarief ◽  
Idqan Fahmi ◽  
Yandra Arkeman

Being a country with the fourth largest population in the world, but with an entrepreneur rate that only rank six at the ASEAN level, is a challenge for Indonesia. Entrepreneurship education plays an important role to increase entrepreneurial graduates of higher education. Global awareness of the importance of the role of entrepreneurship and innovation, in line with the growing awareness of higher education institutions, especially universities, to walk the entrepreneurial path. This study aims to form an entrepreneurial university model using a systems approach, where the university should not carry its own burden in carrying out the responsibilities of a third mission to help accelerate community development. The model produced using the Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) method describes the sub-elements as the driver factor that influence the transformation process towards an entrepreneurial university. The elements of the entrepreneurial university model are come from the elements in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. One of the results showed that in Indonesia, producing entrepreneurial graduates as entrepreneurs is a very important factor and will encourage other factors, such as product commercialization, patents, and realizing science and techno parks, as has been achieved by several leading universities in the world.   Received: 2 November 2020 / Accepted: 11 December 2020 / Published: 17 January 2021


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maddalena Della Volpe

In this study, we aim to reach a better understanding of the critical issues that affect the achievement of the University third mission. We argue that the third mission is positively linked to the first one. Renewing the teaching way and building a dynamic system of cooperation between university players means obtain positive results that integrate the proposal of an Entrepreneurial University (EU) model into a new network perspective. In order to identify its characteristics, resources and activities, we provide a literature review about the EU. We collect the more frequently shared indicators so as to define the EU model and consider new indicators, such as internships and more highly skilled students. We propose to design the EU ecosystem as a network where it is possible to identify the players involved, the activities performed and the tools used. Particularly, we refer to Italy. Within a network, interaction ways among actors are renewed, reinforced and changed. Each university could build its own network, according to its history, culture and environment. We pinpoint obstacles and incentives only exploring literature review. We do not have empirical data or case studies to support directly the feasibility and applicability of our model. Redesigning University-Business Cooperation to renew entrepreneurial learning environments. Obtaining an applicable perspective starting from the strengths of each university environments. Developing an entrepreneurial mindset inside students. Highlighting a dynamic, released, flexible approach, fit to different contexts.


Author(s):  
Alice Hübner Franz ◽  
Marcio Silva Rodrigues

Resumo O presente artigo visa discutir a emergência e o engajamento retórico do modelo da universidade empreendedora no contexto brasileiro a partir de um viés crítico. Parte-se do pressuposto de que o contexto político e econômico do país faz emergir um modelo, um ideal de universidade, que é colocado em disputa. Para a realização deste estudo, optou-se pela elaboração de um artigo de cunho teórico e reflexivo, fundamentado por um debate que inclui diversos aspectos relevantes advindos da realização de uma revisão da literatura, a qual engloba aspectos sócio-históricos sobre educação superior brasileira. Como resultado, foi possível constatar, através das diferentes fases pelas quais a universidade brasileira já passou, que ela vem sendo paulatinamente reorganizada conforme os imperativos mundiais, entre os quais se verifica o avanço de um discurso instrumentalista e funcional, que pode ser vislumbrado a partir da disseminação do modelo da universidade empreendedora, sobretudo a partir de 2010. Palavras-chave: Universidade empreendedora; Educação Superior; Neoliberalismo; Empreendedorismo. Abstract This article aims to discuss the emergence and the rhetorical engagement of the entrepreneurial university model in the Brazilian context from a critical perspective. It starts from the assumption that the country's political and economic context gives rise to an ideal university model, which is put into dispute. To carry out this study, we opted for the elaboration of a theoretical and reflective article based on a debate that includes several relevant aspects arising from a literature review that encompasses socio-historical aspects of Brazilian higher education. As result, it was possible to verify that, through the different phases in which the Brazilian university has passed, it has been gradually reorganized according to the world imperatives, in which there is an advance of an instrumental and functional discourse, which can be glimpsed from the dissemination of the entrepreneurial university model, especially from 2010. Keywords: Entrepreneurial University; College education; Neoliberalism; Entrepreneurship. Resumen Este artículo tiene como objetivo discutir el surgimiento y el compromiso retórico del modelo de la universidad emprendedora en el contexto brasileño desde una perspectiva crítica. Se parte del presupuesto de que el contexto político y económico del país da lugar a un modelo, un ideal de universidad, que se pone en disputa. Para llevar a cabo este estudio, optamos por la elaboración de un artículo teórico y reflexivo basado en un debate que incluye varios aspectos relevantes derivados de una revisión de la literatura que abarca aspectos sociohistóricos de la educación superior brasileña. Como resultado, fue posible verificar que, a través de las diferentes fases en que la universidad brasileña ha pasado, se ha reorganizado gradualmente de acuerdo con los imperativos mundiales, en los que hay un avance de un discurso instrumental y funcional, lo cual puede ser visto desde la diseminación del modelo de la universidad emprendedora, especialmente a partir de 2010. Palabras clave: Universidad emprendedora; Educación Universitaria; Neoliberalismo; Emprendedorismo.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matodzi Rebecca Raphalalani ◽  
Mashudu Churchill Mashige

This study investigated, through observation of the Tshivenḓa female dress codes, the socio-cultural significance of such dress codes as a means of non-verbal communication. The non-verbal meaning embedded in different items of dresses conveys messages from the wearers to observers. The study adopted  a qualitative  design, since it used  document analysis and literature review as a means to adduce evidence that Tshivenḓa dress codes not only communicate socio-cultural meanings to the observer, but also signify gender, age group, rank, authority, status, and identity, as well as power relations—including the supernatural and the sacred. The study also revealed that there are dress codes that are specifically worn during initiation ceremonies among the Vhavenḓa people. In conclusion, we recommend that knowledge of Tshivenḓa dress codes should form part of the overall indigenous knowledge that needs to be studied in institutions of basic and higher education, and that for the sake of preserving this valuable information, communities need to be proactive in disseminating it to the younger generation.


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