A National Systems View of University Development: Towards a Broadened Perspective on the Entrepreneurial University Based on the German and US Experience
This paper postulates a life cycle model of university entrepreneurialism at the national level. Based on the analysis, this paper identifies two fundamental sources of such entrepreneurialism: 1) the institutional anchoring of the university of a public-private hybrid form in organization and finance; 2) decentralization of the system in such a way as to encourage a high level of competition and differentiation. We hypothesize that when national university systems grow and exhibit signs of demand overload, political pressures for system homogenization increase; system homogenization weakens both sources of entrepreneurialism and leads to decline. The sources of decline are thus unintended consequences of policy choices to cope with the side effects of demand overload within national university systems. Implications for the ascendant Chinese university system are derived.
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2007
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Authors: | Lehrer, Mark ; Nell, Phillip ; Gärber, Lisa |
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Kiel : Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) |
Subject: | Hochschule | Privatwirtschaft | Hochschulfinanzierung | Dezentrale Organisation | Institutioneller Wettbewerb | Hochschulpolitik | Deutschland | USA | China | Entrepreneurial University | German University System | US University System | National Systems of Innovation | Interregional Competition | R&D Reform |
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freely available
Series: | Kiel Working Paper ; 1370 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 534551904 [GVK] hdl:10419/17882 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:ifwkwp:1370 [RePEc] |
Classification: | N30 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income and Wealth. General, International, or Comparative ; I23 - Higher Education Research Institutions ; N33 - Europe: Pre-1913 ; N32 - U.S.; Canada: 1913- |
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