Delineating the Character of the Entrepreneurial University

We gain insight into the emerging character of the entrepreneurial university by pursuing empirical answers to two questions: How are such universities initially formed? And how do they sustain themselves? My 1998 book, Creating Entrepreneurial Universities, used European cases to conceptualize five ‘pathways of transformation.’ My 2004 book, Sustaining Change in Universities, in search of exemplars of entrepreneurial action, turns to 14...