ABSTRACT

Academic entrepreneurship is a contentious university activity, but there is little engagement in the relevant literature with the idea of the university itself. References and assumptions about the role of universities in society are barely made explicit even though the centuries-old development of the idea of the university carries great insights. In this paper, we consider some of the deep tensions between instrumentalist and idealist views about the role of universities and argue that there is space for academic entrepreneurship, not merely as an add-on, but as an integral part of university activity. By formulating a research-oriented vision of academic entrepreneurship, we hope to guard the university from the dominance of other interests and goals and thus argue that an attractive form of academic entrepreneurship is possible.

摘要

学术创业是一项有争议的大学活动，但相关文献很少涉及大学本身的理念。尽管大学理念的数百年发展具有深刻的见解，但关于大学在社会中的作用的参考文献和假设却很少明确。在本文中，我们考虑了工具主义和理想主义关于大学作用的观点之间的一些深刻的紧张关系，并认为学术创业有空间，不仅作为附加内容，而且作为大学活动的一个组成部分。通过制定以研究为导向的学术创业愿景，我们希望保护大学免受其他利益和目标的支配，从而认为一种有吸引力的学术创业形式是可能的。