Changing Paradigms in the Digital Age and Entrepreneurial Universities

Changing Paradigms in the Digital Age and Entrepreneurial Universities

Orkun Yildiz
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3901-9.ch001
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Abstract

Innovation-oriented initiatives and entrepreneurs have gained increasing importance for dealing with unemployment and increasing human power on a global scale. Thus, a need for making changes to the university design in which the main focus is on teaching and research has emerged. “The entrepreneurial university model,” which is featured in the triple helix model and helps redefine university-industry and state relationships, has been created as a response to this need. The purpose of this review is to present fundamental information about the conceptual framework of the entrepreneurial university and the properties that universities need to have in order to be labeled as an entrepreneurial university. This study, which is one of the few studies that examine the conceptual and developmental features of the entrepreneurial university model, provides readers with a review of the evolution of university-industry-state relationships and insights into several theoretical issues and political orientations.
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The Historical Perspective On The Evaluation Of Higher Education Missions

Higher education institutions have positioned themselves based on the requirements of time and social expectations. In other words, there are differences in the expectations of the societies in which they have been located towards higher education institutions in different periods. Based on the expectations, it can be said that the demand for contribution to higher education institutions for the healthy administration, development, and maintenance of the societies. The higher education institutions have adopted many different missions as a result of these expectations. One of the first adopted mission is education and training by higher education institutions. Institutions generally accepted this mission until the middle of the 19th century (Jencks & Riesman, 1968 and Wissema, J.G., 2009).

These days, higher education institutions position themselves as institutions that provide education and training activities so that distinguished people can contribute to society. In other words, a mission that aims to transfer normative information to students through education and training activities is accepted by these institutions (Etzkowitz, 2003; Montesinos et al., 2008).

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