Entrepreneurialism and Private Higher Education in Europe.
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2009
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It is difficult to analyse private universities in Europe (including those that
are part of the EUEREK case studies) in the context of entrepreneurialism in the form the concept has emerged in the basic literature on the subject and available case studies. The private sector in higher education in Europe, with several exceptions (e.g. Portugal and Spain) — from the point of view of both numbers of institutions, share of enrolments in the sector, and study areas offered — has been an educational phenomenon of the transition countries.
In some countries (e.g. Sweden, Belgium, and the Netherlands), nominally private institutions are funded in practice with public money, in various forms and under different umbrellas.This chapter is based, in more theoretical terms, on the conceptual
work on 'entrepreneurial', 'enterprising', and 'proactive' universities by
Clark 'self-reliant' and 'enterprising' — as
well as; more generally, 'successful' — universities by Shattock and Williams, and Sporn's notion of 'adaptive' universities. In empirical terms, it is based on
case studies of entrepreneurialism in universities drawn from the EUEREK
study on entrepreneurialism in private institutions within the context of
what Clark, Shattock, Williams, and Sporn suggest for the study of public
institutions.
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academic entrepreneurialism, academic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial universities, university-enterprises, non-core income, EUEREK project, European universities, private higher education, private sector, privatization, public policy, higher education research, higher education policy, enterprising universities, self-reliant universities, Burton Clark
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In: Michael Shattock (ed.), Entrepreneurialism in Universities and the Knowledge Economy. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2009. pp. 100-120