Faculty Entrepreneurialism and the Challenge to Undergraduate Education at Research Universities

Lee, Jenny J.; Rhoads, Robert A.

doi:10.1023/b:rihe.0000044229.70457.ca

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“…Lee and Rhoads (2004) find that consulting has a negative impact on teaching commitment. Just recently, some scholars have started to consider jointly the relationship between teaching, research and other forms of knowledge transfer.…”

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“…A broad distinction can be made between basic science (including mathematics) and engineering (applied) fields, with the former offering fewer consulting opportunities than the latter. Lee and Rhoads (2004), based on a survey of U.S. faculty members, suggest that 52% of engineering academics engage in consulting, while the corresponding percentage is 24.2% for mathematics and 29.2% for physical sciences. Based on a sample of UK academics, D'Este and Patel (2007) find that engineers are markedly more prone to get involved in consultancy activities than mathematicians and physicists.…”

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The economics of research, consulting, and teaching quality: theory and evidence from a technical university

Bianchini

Lissoni

Pezzoni

et al. 2015

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractWe investigate the effect of both research and consulting on higher education teaching quality at the individual level. We propose a theoretical model in which academics allocate limited time between three activities, over a two period horizon, under the assumption of positive spillovers from research to both consulting opportunities and teaching, and of life cycle effects on incentives. Propositions from the model are tested against teaching evaluation data from a mid-sized Italian engineering faculty. We find that research experience improves teaching quality, but only if it does not translate into large consulting opportunities. In that case, research experience provides too strong a disincentive to invest time in teaching, and quality deteriorates.

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The economics of research, consulting, and teaching quality: theory and evidence from a technical university

Bianchini

Lissoni

Pezzoni

et al. 2015

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

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“…55-57. ) demonstrates that commercialisation activities and patent applications have long become part of academic occupation (see also Lee & Rhoads, 2004). In some cases, the principles of communism are not strictly adhered to and findings are disseminated with restrictions or not at all, especially when different groups research in similar directions and are considered mutual competitors (Campbell et al 2002;Blumenthal, Campbell, Anderson, Causino, & Louis, 1997).…”

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Entrepreneurship and Academic Employment-More Alike than You'd Think

Sinell¹,

Heidingsfelder²,

Schraudner³

2015

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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Abstract:Recognising the increasing value of knowledge and technology transfer, the scientific and political communities in Germany have recently devoted much attention to academic entrepreneurship. Seeking to explore similarities and differences between academic employment and entrepreneurship, we interviewed 112 postdoctoral students from the four major German research organisations and 16 senior transfer managers whose responsibilities included spin-off facilitation.Our findings indicate that those involved in such occupations often believe that academic employment and entrepreneurship differ substantially on many levels. Both interviewed senior managers and postdoctoral students considered engaging in commercialisation activities to be a risky and serious undertaking and a significant career change. Simultaneously, the opinions and observations of postdoctoral students helped us identify a wide range of similarities between academic employment and entrepreneurship. Our findings can help make entrepreneurship more accessible to researchers, re-define the boundaries between scientific and commercial activities, and, ultimately, foster knowledge and technology transfer.

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“…Except the direct impact of business relations on educational process, there might be indirect effect of being involved into entrepreneurial activities. As What Affects The Ability To Accumulate The Best… 85 pointed by Lee and Rhoads (2004), academics who are actively involved in business activities tend to be more committed to teaching. However, shifting universities which are non-profit organizations towards being active entrepreneurs might affect negatively the education quality.…”

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What Affects The Ability To Accumulate The Best Applicants By Russian Universities? The Application Of Quantile Regression Model

Łaszkiewicz

Земцов

Баринова

2017

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The aim of this paper is to evaluate which university’s characteristics have the greatest impact on the competitiveness of universities in their ability to attract better students in Russia. We examined the impact of three groups of factors,related to teaching, research and entrepreneurial activities of universities. The quantile regression model was applied for the subsample of public and private higher education institutions localized in Russia. The results prove that not only traditional, teaching-related factors affect the attractiveness of the universities. We found that the research quality and entrepreneurial experience both increase the ability to accumulate the best applicants by Russian universities. However, the synergy between training, research and business activities is not always achieved. The importance of science and business-oriented activities varies between public and private institutions. According to the results from the quantile regression the importance of the certain factors differs between the quantiles of the dependent variable distribution. Our findings might be useful for the governmental authorities during the universities’ assessment as well as for the higher education institutions themselves – in order to define their strategic development and attract better students.

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Faculty Entrepreneurialism and the Challenge to Undergraduate Education at Research Universities

Cited by 64 publications

References 38 publications

The economics of research, consulting, and teaching quality: theory and evidence from a technical university

The economics of research, consulting, and teaching quality: theory and evidence from a technical university

Entrepreneurship and Academic Employment-More Alike than You'd Think

What Affects The Ability To Accumulate The Best Applicants By Russian Universities? The Application Of Quantile Regression Model

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