Based on field research carried out over a two year period, this book describes processes of transformation that took place over a fifteen year period in five European universities. Five common features identified - described as "organizational pathways of transformation" - are highlighted and used to frame the case-study accounts. These pathways consist of: a strengthened steering core; an extended developmental periphery; a diversified funding base; a stimulated academic heartland; and an entrepreneurial culture. Taken together, these elements help universities overcome the growing imbalance between environmental demands and university capacity to respond that is now occurring in universities internationally. As universities come under greater pressure to change their traditional character and become more innovative and entrepreneurial, the successful implementation of new managerial perspectives is important if they are to succeed. Reconciling these changes with traditional academic values provide the concepts on which the case studies are based.
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M. L. Shattock OBE, Registrar, University of Warwick, UK
A distinguishing feature of Burton Clark's work is that he has had the courage to research and write about major themes in higher education and thus open up new fields of study. In this book he has brought the subject of entrepreneurialism into the centre of discussion about the nature of academic achievement; it will be immensely influential.
Sheldon Rothblatt, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Here is an exploration, at once empirical and conceptual, in language that is sharp and effective, of the way we live now. Clark looks for and finds pathways out of current difficulties that address that old dilemma in the history of universities: how to escape from the vexations of the present without losing sight of the qualities that made universities so very special in the first place."
David Smith, School of Education, University of Leeds
...Clark makes a valuable contribution to debate on the future shape of universities.
Higher Education
A distinguishing feature of Burton Clark's work is that he has had the courage to research and write about major themes in higher education and thus open up new fields of study. In this book he has brought the subject of entrepreneurialism into the centre of discussion about the nature of academic achievement; it will be immensely influential.
Sheldon Rothblatt, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Here is an exploration, at once empirical and conceptual, in language that is sharp and effective, of the way we live now. Clark looks for and finds pathways out of current difficulties that address that old dilemma in the history of universities: how to escape from the vexations of the present without losing sight of the qualities that made universities so very special in the first place."
David Smith, School of Education, University of Leeds
...Clark makes a valuable contribution to debate on the future shape of universities.
Higher Education
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This review is from: Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation (Issues in Higher Education) (Issues in Higher Education) (Advances in Learning and Instruction Series) (Paperback)
Clark explores the difficulties experienced in Europe in the 90s, when many universities tried to encourage entrepreneurial spinoffs. An American reader, who perhaps might have a background in the US university system, can read this slim book and see many parallels to American efforts.The book looks at policies made at the level of the European Union, to spur more risk taking by academics. In part, this was a recognition that far too little was being exploited of the vast sums annually spent on research and development. Case studies are explained of Chalmers [in Sweden] and Strathclyde [in Britain]. Incubators were made, to facilitate an easier transition for startups to leave the universities. We see that the efforts of far sighted individuals at the top levels of the university administrations was vital in providing a spur to change. But the book also has another aspect. It points out that knowledge production vastly expanded compared to earlier decades. And one inescapable result was the proliferation of demand for more academic resources - people, equipment and space. So aside from startups, this aspect of academia is investigated, albeit briefly. No solution is offered, but it is posited that the danger exists of a university being stretched too thin in its intellectual foundings. Looking back from today [2011], the universities seem to have survived and mostly thrived. And knowledge keeps increasing...
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