期刊名称：Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal
印刷版ISSN：1855-9719
电子版ISSN：2232-2647
出版年度：2014
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：9-26
出版社：University of Ljubljana
摘要：University education, research and other services are increasingly becomingprivate goods as opposed to the traditional public goods concept. This trendis a highly debated process, and its consequences for universities are unquestionable.One of the consequences may be the diffusion of entrepreneurshipin the higher education sector. The aim of the present paper is to highlightsome of the characteristics of this process. Starting with the classics of entrepreneurshipliterature, Schumpeter defined the entrepreneur as somebodywho goes against the stream. A new combination of production factors isthe soul of entrepreneurship, and of any changes such as university reforms.Earlier research by Clark shed light on the environment of emerging entrepreneurialuniversities, which happened to be mainly new, relatively smalluniversities. He found five indicators that are components of entrepreneurialuniversities. Taking this concept as a point of departure, we extended it intwo directions. First, we go back to the economics literature and collect severalother indicators/statements about entrepreneurship that are also worthconsidering in higher education. Second, we present a number of successfulentrepreneurial cases of large top universities, looking for other indicators.Summarising these indicators in a table, two reforms of the Corvinus Universityof Budapest and its predecessors are discussed. Both of the reformprocesses lasted about five years, and there was a gap of approximately 20years between the two processes. We would expect this to be successful, as auniversity needs to be reformed every 20 years, but this was not the case. Wecome to the surprising conclusion that, at least in case of the Corvinus Universityof Budapest, the two reforms in the socialist period were more entrepreneurialthan the reforms we are experiencing now in a market economyenvironment. The explanation for this situation is twofold: the general socioeconomicenvironment is not really supportive of reform initiatives, andthere is a lack of charismatic leadership.
关键词：entrepreneurial university; university reforms; leadership;the socioeconomic situation; Corvinus University of Budapest
