Establishing Entrepreneurial Universities: Pathways to Organizational Transformation (Comparative Education Series)

Author: Burton Clark
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This book focuses on the transformation of universities, selecting five universities with distinct characteristics in England, the Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden, and Finland as research subjects. It conducts in-depth case studies around the five elements of transformation proposed by the author (a strong steering core, a broadened developmental periphery, a diversified funding base, an activated academic heartland, and an integrated entrepreneurial culture), employing a combination of conceptual analysis and institutional history descriptions to elucidate how entrepreneurial universities are built.