«АКАДЕМІЧНИЙ КАПІТАЛІЗМ» І КОМЕРЦІАЛІЗАЦІЯ НОВИХ ЗНАНЬ

Abstract

The author analyzes the features of the appearance, existence and world spread “academic capitalism”, “academic (or university) entrepreneurship” phenomena, as well as a new type of university-oriented universities – “entrepreneurial universities”. The reasons for the emergence of “academic capitalism” in the United States have been examined. It has been noted that “academic capitalism” is an intellectual, knowledge-based entrepreneurial component of the economic system of capitalism and directly affects its subsystems – productive forces, technical and economic relations, industrial relations and economic mechanism. It has been noted that academic capitalism is a specific type of a holistic process of expanded capitalist reproduction, dissemination and consumption of new knowledge as intellectual capital and intellectual property, technics, technologies, methods and techniques for the formation of innovative means of production, the identification of new resources and innovative methods of management. The authors consider the theoretical and methodological foundations of the innovative development of higher education based on a comprehensive analysis of university (academic) entrepreneurship phenomenon. Assessment of its role in the innovative development of society and on the basis of a study of the historical cause and effect relationships of the emergence of “academic capitalism” and the development of university entrepreneurship. It has been also indicated that the causal relationship between the emergence of “academic capitalism” and the emergence of university entrepreneurship should be studied in a sequence of interrelated events and stages of development of society, science and higher education, as its components. The scheme of the process of evolution of new knowledge in the system of creating knowledge from the beginning of R&D to the commercialization has been considered. The authors’ research will be useful for the further development of national economic and entrepreneurial education, own academic (university) entrepreneurship and innovative reform of higher education in Ukraine.