Title: A performance-based taxonomy of entrepreneurial universities

Authors: Leire Markuerkiaga; Juan Ignacio Igartua; Nekane Errasti

Addresses: Faculty of Engineering, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Loramendi, 4, 20500 Arrasate-Mondragón, Spain ' Faculty of Engineering, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Loramendi, 4, 20500 Arrasate-Mondragón, Spain ' Faculty of Engineering, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Loramendi, 4, 20500 Arrasate-Mondragón, Spain

Abstract: The European higher education landscape has experienced dramatic changes in the last decades and the entrepreneurial university has turned into a potential solution to these perceived problems. Therefore, this paper proposes taxonomy of entrepreneurial universities. Based on a cluster analysis, three distinct groups are identified, within different phases of the transformation into an entrepreneurial university: one group of universities is in the first phase of the path, since they are not obtaining high entrepreneurial university results yet; another group is in the second phase of the path, obtaining good results in hard academic entrepreneurship activities; and, finally, the last group is composed of the most entrepreneurial universities. Moreover, universities are not motionless within a specific group, they can improve and move from one stage to the upper one; indeed, this paper shows the main levers for moving from one stage to another.

Keywords: entrepreneurial university; performance; taxonomy; academic entrepreneurship activities; cluster analysis; entrepreneurial university results; academic entrepreneurship; higher education; internal entrepreneurship support factors; external entrepreneurship support factors.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.2018.091713

International Journal of Technology Management, 2018 Vol.77 No.1/2/3, pp.57 - 85

Received: 24 Mar 2016
Accepted: 21 Dec 2016

Published online: 14 May 2018 *

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