Academic entrepreneurship in a medical university: A system dynamics approach

Sharam Tofighi,Ehsan Teymourzadeh,Ghader Ghanizadeh

doi:10.5937/intrev1702058t

Abstract

Academic entrepreneurship is a dynamic field which is growing after the second academic revolution that added entrepreneurial mission as the Third Mission of universities. In this sense, dynamics of this phenomenon is a suitable field of study and provides fruitful insights for both theory and practice. Thus, in this research, system dynamics approach is used to scrutinize academic entrepreneurship. The main question of this research is 'how academic entrepreneurship might evolve in a medical university of a developing country?' Therefore, Cross Impact Analysis method is used to examine the system behavior. In this study, the main attributes are adapted from a recent study by Salamzadeh et al. (2013a). Then, some policy variables are proposed and their effects on the model were shown. Findings show that although entrepreneurial ecosystem is growing in the country, still there are problems to be taken into account in order to improve the entrepreneurship in university.

Highlights

Entrepreneurship is considered as an influential tool to improve firms, and especially business ventures (Gartner, 1990; Howorth, 2005)
Academic entrepreneurship is realized through focusing on the Third Mission of universities which ensures the success of universities in becoming more entrepreneurial
The authors considered four entities and a series of attributes which constitute the model of study

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Entrepreneurship is considered as an influential tool to improve firms, and especially business ventures (Gartner, 1990; Howorth, 2005). This method is among the most well known methods in system thinking approaches, which is developed in order to identify and examine the relationships between system variables/entities This method is rarely used in entrepreneurship research and mostly used in solving nonentrepreneurial problems (e.g. Pedamallu et al 2011, Hayashi et al 2006), until in 2013a, Salamzadeh et al (2013a) took advantage of it to study entrepreneurial universities. (v) Theoretical derivation: the bases of the proposed model are Farsi et al (2012), Guerrero and Urbano (2010), Sooreh et al (2011), Salamzadeh et al, (2013a), and Guerrero et al, (2014) In this step, the cross impact matrix is defined.

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