Research article

The entrepreneurial university in the twenty-first century

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Abstract

Burton Clark's 1998 monograph, Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation, has become seminal in the literature on entrepreneurialism in universities. In this paper I re-examine the validity of Clark's analysis through an interview study of one of his original entrepreneurial universities, namely Warwick University; at the same time, I seek to remedy some of the defects in Clark's original study. The study affirms that the entrepreneurial culture that Clark identified some 15 years ago still persists at Warwick University. I speculate on the reasons why this culture has persisted, discuss the suitability of the entrepreneurial university in the post-2012 era and stress the importance of distinguishing between commercialism and Clark's concept of entrepreneurialism.

Keywords: ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY, ENTERPRISE UNIVERSITY, BURTON CLARK, WARWICK UNIVERSITY, PATHWAYS OF TRANSFORMATION

How to Cite:

Taylor, M., (2012) “The entrepreneurial university in the twenty-first century”, London Review of Education 10(3), 289–305. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14748460.2012.729885