Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1370:
A National Systems View of University Development: Towards a Broadened Perspective on the Entrepreneurial University Based on the German and US Experience
Mark Lehrer, Phillip Nell and Lisa Gärber
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: Entrepreneurial University, German University System, US University System, National Systems of Innovation, Interregional Competition, R&D Reform; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: I23,; N30,; N32,; N33; (follow links to similar papers)
34 pages, June 2007
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