Entrepreneurial University: U.s. Research University Model Change

In recent twenty years, the roles and activities of the university has been viewed remarkable changes. In response to the demands and pressure that the universities faced inside and outside it, some universities with entrepreneurship integrate a mission for economic and social development. This change is transforming the traditional teaching and research university into an entrepreneurial university. The entrepreneurial university performs the function of developing the high-tech and new industries, assumes the mission of increasing the economy development of the country or region, then advances the country's competition. Undoubtedly, the analysis of the idea and mission, structure, functions, develop process and institutional arrangement of American entrepreneurial university means important significance for the construction of the world class university and the promotion of the core competition of our country.This dissertation takes the "economic and social development" as a typical feature of the entrepreneurial university, discusses systematically the entrepreneurial university's history, circumstance, process, structure and roles. The main contributing conclusion of the dissertation includes: on the basis of the definition of entrepreneurial university of Etzkowitz and Clark et. al, the dissertation redefines the entrepreneurial university, unveils its contents and meanings, analyses its function system of teaching, research and economic and social development, explores its structure and process mechanism, brings forward quantitatively its typical features and benchmarks, and gives the suggestions to our country's "985 Engineering" university through the comparative analysis.The full text of the dissertation is divided into six chapters. Its literary construction arrangement is as follows:As a preface, the chapter 1 puts forward the necessity of the research of the entrepreneurial university, introduces summarily the main contents, framework and methods, it summarizes the relative literatures.Chapter 2 elaborates the first and the second academic revolution and the changes of the university modes in the view of the history of the university development. The two academic revolution respectively gives birth to two new university modes, i.e. research university and entrepreneurial university. The second academic revolution also brings the change for the essence of the science research, i.e. the differentiation of the academic science and the entrepreneurial science.After the description of the four phases in which the entrepreneurial university grows, Chapter 3 redefines the entrepreneurial university on the basis of the definition of the entrepreneurship that Schumpeter and Drucker has put forward and the descriptions of the entrepreneurial university that Etzkowitz and Clark have given. In the end of the chapter, it illuminates detailedly the new functions in the research university surrounding the "economic and social development " by the case study and qualitative analysis methods.Chapter 4 analyses the organization innovation, process innovation and public policies that facilitate the technology transfer of the entrepreneurial university. First, it starts from the discussion of the organization innovation. The organizations in the entrepreneurial university are divided into 3 sorts, i.e. the inner cross-disciplinary organizations, the university-industry-government trans-boundary linkage organizations, and the technology management organizations in university. Second, it points out the mode 2 of knowledge production and the process of technology development and transfer of the entrepreneurial university. Thirdly, it explores the university-industry-government triple helix which is the platform the entrepreneurial university grows and runs on. Lastly, based on the previous research in this chapter, we offer the a useful model of the mechanism.Chapter 5 identifies the instructional experiences by which the research universities successfully transforms into the entrepreneurial universities. Then, it takes 100 acknowledged American research universities as cases, by using the factor analysis and the clustering analysis methods concludes 4 sorts of research universities, i.e. entrepreneurial university I , entrepreneurial university II, academic research university and common research university. On the foundation of the qualitative analysis We puts forward the benchmarks of entrepreneurial university. In the end, we compare our "985 Project" universities to the 4 sorts of American research universities, and offer useful suggestions for the development of our country's universities.Chapter 6 summarizes the contributing conclusions of the dissertation, and then makes further prospect about the research of the entrepreneurial university.