Title: Towards the third generation of universities with an entrepreneurial approach

Authors: Mehdi Tajpour; Hiroko Kawamorita; Kursat Demiryurek

Addresses: Research Fellow Entrepreneurship, Ondokuz Mayis University, Atakum 55200, Samsun, Turkey ORCID: 0000-0001-8951-9711 ' Bafra Faculty of Business Administration, Ondokuz Mayis University, Atakum 55200, Samsun, Turkey ' Faculty of Agriculture, Ondokuz Mayis University, Atakum 55200, Samsun, Turkey

Abstract: Universities must face new challenges to meet expectations for entrepreneurial growth. Third generation universities are generally entrepreneurial and based on entrepreneurship and solving society problems with a scientific approach. In this research, which has used analytical and descriptive methods, in order to understand the concepts of third generation university and entrepreneurial university, the background of the subject has been studied in the form of library and documentary studies. In order to describe the necessary structures for the entrepreneurial university, the existing records have been reviewed through the latest articles and related documents. The increasing growth of social relations shows different areas of social life, including the higher education system, with two similar but distinct phenomena; entrepreneurial university, due to its importance, is a factor of economic and social development. This shows that the activities of the entrepreneurial university are focused and require a large presence of students in this process.

Keywords: corporate entrepreneurship; innovation; entrepreneurial university; technology transfer.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTE.2020.113927

International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship, 2020 Vol.4 No.2, pp.122 - 133

Received: 13 Dec 2019
Accepted: 30 Sep 2020
Published online: 01 Apr 2021 *

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