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The entrepreneurial university and academic discourses: The meta‐synthesis of Higher Education articles
Author(s) -
Uslu Baris,
Calikoglu Alper,
Seggie F. Nevra,
Seggie Steven H.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/hequ.12198
Subject(s) - higher education , revenue , entrepreneurship , service (business) , entrepreneurial education , sociology , public relations , production (economics) , public university , political science , marketing , entrepreneurship education , business , economic growth , economics , accounting , public administration , law , macroeconomics
The innovative teaching, knowledge and technology production and societal service activities of academics are largely discussed within the entrepreneurial university discourse in Higher Education journals. Therefore, this research focuses on a meta‐synthesis of Higher Education articles to better understand the concepts of the entrepreneurial university and entrepreneurial academic. After the systematic elimination based on keywords and titles, 25 articles have been selected from the top 10 Higher Education journals in the SCImago Journal Rankings. Content analysis was performed on these articles to highlight the common operational areas in entrepreneurial universities and activities of entrepreneurial academics. The meta‐synthesis shows that, both for universities and academics, entrepreneurship is overwhelmingly characterised by the commercialisation of scholarly activities that enrich institutional income revenue as well as academics’ personal income. However, such an approach can distance universities from their mission of public good; so Higher Education administrators should create mechanisms that would allow both to take place in a balanced way.