Journal of Higher Education, Theory, and Practice, May 1, 2013
The role of knowledge creators and accumulators like universities and their research institutions... more The role of knowledge creators and accumulators like universities and their research institutions are consistently growing and obtaining new forms of operation. Recently the traditional university model considering importance of new knowledge flows in regional innovation systems tended to contribute to external knowledge absorption readiness thus requiring new roles for regional knowledge centres in less developed countries. In essence, today the model of interaction with the commercial sector has a much more complex mode. The primary aim of this paper is to systemize industry-university-society linkages, and emerging concepts of the entrepreneurial university in catching-up a country into the proper model scheme to catalyse a much easier and faster assessment of effectiveness factors for any university on its way to introducing top-down, or better bottom-up approaches of an entrepreneurial university. In the first part of this paper we analyse the concept of academic entrepreneurship and technology absorption readiness, the second part is devoted to entrepreneurial university models, and the third section analyzes the case of a small regional College and a national university in the capital city of Latvia.
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