Creation of an Entrepreneurial University Culture, The University of Arkansas as a Case Study*

Vickers, Ken; Salamo, Greg; Loewer, O. J.; Ahlen, John

doi:10.1002/j.2168-9830.2001.tb00648.x

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“…However, with the exception of writers such as Silver (2003), Serow et al (2002 and Vickers et al (2001), there is a general lack of research examining the organisational culture of HEIs.…”

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“…The organisational culture imperatives of the university define its existence and determine how it approaches its mandate of educating, generating knowledge and voicing solutions to societal problems directly or indirectly. However, with the exception of writers such as Silver (2003), Serow et al (2002 and Vickers et al (2001), there is a general lack of research examining the organisational culture of HEIs.…”

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Building the research culture in an African business school

Puplampu

2015

European Business Review

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Purpose – This paper aims to report the efforts to reverse a dire research output trend at a Ghanaian Business School, following a similar effort at a business school in New Zealand in the 1990s. African universities are often challenged by resource constraints, ageing faculty and low compensation regimes. The consequences of these challenges are particularly felt in the area of the research output of faculty members in the business and management area. The problem of low research output has been written about by management scholars who lament the weak showing of African management faculty in reputable journals and top-notch conference presentations. Design/methodology/approach – This is a qualitative and phenomenological study of an applied intervention. Using a combination of open-ended questionnaires as well as open forums attended by faculty members of the business school, views, perceptions and opinions on factors mitigating research and issues on research culture were collected and analysed. Descriptive analyses were used to collate the dominant views and frequency of mention of such views. Findings – Using the descriptive accounts of faculty of the Business School, the research finds that a research-oriented culture expressed through factors such as leadership, institutional support, articulation or otherwise of relevant values have significant impacts on research output. Research limitations/implications – Based on the impacts reported here, this paper advances an intervention model to assist efforts towards improving the research culture and scholarly outputs in business schools in Africa. The paper also proposes a conceptual and research framework for examining and influencing the organisational and research culture of universities in Africa. Originality/value – This paper is perhaps the only attempt to examine research culture in an African business school. It suggests that the research culture in a business school or faculty can be developed, reinvented or influenced and that research in African universities will not “just happen”, it has to be carefully planned for, nurtured and built into the fabric of university culture. This has significant implications for the growing effort to bring African scholarship in the management areas up to the point where it can more directly impact management thinking.

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“…However, with the exception of writers such as Silver (2003), Serow et al (2002 and Vickers et al (2001), there is a general lack of research examining the organisational culture of HEIs.…”

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confidence: 99%

Section: Ebr 273mentioning

confidence: 99%

Building the research culture in an African business school

Puplampu

2015

European Business Review

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“…The promotion of entrepreneurial spirit in universities refers to the concept of university entrepreneurship, such as the ability of a university to transfer its own projects, knowledge and technologies to society using multiple channels, including the creation of university spin-offs. It is here that reports on how to generate an entrepreneurial culture in a university can be found (Vickers et al, 2001;Kirby, 2005), including diverse studies of best practice in university entrepreneurship programmes (Kloftsten and Serio, 2008).…”

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Promoting Entrepreneurial Culture in the University

Pablo¹,

Alfaro²,

Rodríguez³

et al. 2011

Industry and Higher Education

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This paper presents a case of collaboration between different types of public services and the private sector for the promotion of an entrepreneurial culture. This collaboration is achieved by means of a centre established and developed by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Centro de Iniciativas Emprendedoras (the Centre for Entrepreneurial Initiatives, CIADE). Since its creation CIADE has, because of a lack of university-allocated financial resources, been collaborating with a wide range of organizations in accordance with the Triple Helix model, including three levels of public administration (national, regional and local), several private businesses and different corporate civic bodies (mostly corporate foundations). CIADE's principal, distinctive attributes, with regard to the Triple Helix, are collaboration, self-financing, project management and a horizontal hierarchical structure which allows rapid accommodation of and adaptation to the changing circumstances of its environment.

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“…Many universities have developed formal engineering entrepreneurship programs and minors over the last several years. Some early work in engineering entrepreneurship pedagogy involved defining and cultivating the proper campus learning environments for the development of the entrepreneurial mindset [2,3]. Common features of this campus learning environment include integration among engineering, business, design, and product development programs and activities.…”

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Framework for Integrating Entrepreneurially Minded Learning in Upper Level Courses

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Many institutions now offer extracurricular activities to help hone engineering students' entrepreneurial skills and encourage ideation. However, there remain few co-curricular opportunities for students to develop an entrepreneurial skillset and practice entrepreneurial thinking. In particular, opportunities are rare for students to merge entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) with the high-level subject-, project-and collaboration-based learning approaches typically seen in senior-level elective courses. Developing the entrepreneurial mindset will serve our students well by preparing them to be more impactful engineers.We have developed, implemented and assessed a framework for integrating EML into senior-level elective courses via an Ideation Project. In the affected course -Introduction to Biomechanics -the curricular project focused on developing skills related to opportunity identification and impact evaluation. Expected EML outcomes from implementing this framework were behaviors related to expressing curiosity and creating value. We evaluated how well the students met the desired learning objectives and assessed the effectiveness of the framework in developing an entrepreneurial mindset, as evidenced by successful completion of the project deliverables and demonstration of the skill areas and behaviors mentioned previously.Assessment was conducted via summative course assessments and project pre and post surveys, which required students' self-assessment of their entrepreneurial skills and ability to practice entrepreneurial behaviors. Increases in EML skill level and behavior before versus after completing the ideation project were statistically significant (p < 0.05) in some cases; moreover, all but one area ("persisting and learning through failure") had a higher post-project score compared to the corresponding pre-project score. The results indicate that the framework was successful in integrating EML in a senior-level elective and developing an entrepreneurial minded skillset.

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Creation of an Entrepreneurial University Culture, The University of Arkansas as a Case Study*

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Building the research culture in an African business school

Building the research culture in an African business school

Promoting Entrepreneurial Culture in the University

Framework for Integrating Entrepreneurially Minded Learning in Upper Level Courses

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