Balancing centripetal and centrifugal forces in the entrepreneurial university: a study of 10 research centres in a technical university |
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Authors: | Alexander Styhre Frida Lind |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Business, Economics and Law , University of Gothenburg , Sweden Alexander.Styhre@chalmers.se;3. Department of Technology Management and Economics , Chalmers University of Technology , G?teborg, Sweden |
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Abstract: | In the recent interest for the so-called entrepreneurial university, there is a strong emphasis on academic (i.e. theoretical) knowledge to be used more effectively as a source of innovation and renewal in industry. Drawing on a theoretical framework developed by the literature theorist Mikhail Bakhtin and a study of 10 research centres in a major technical university, this paper suggests that rather than representing something radically new, the entrepreneurial university is a domain wherein traditional academic research interests and industry objectives are continuously negotiated and mutually adjusted. Seen in this view, the entrepreneurial university is what is always in a process of becoming, in flux and change, continuously under the influence of opposing and complementary goals and objectives. Therefore, the entrepreneurial university is not a solid state or an entrenched position but the effect of an attitude towards the role and purpose of the university in the so-called knowledge society. |
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Keywords: | entrepreneurial university centrifugal and centripetal forces Mode 2 research Mikhail Bakhtin |
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