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What is an entrepreneurial university, and how does it address the world’s biggest problems?

It’s a question that we’ve been asked regularly the last few months in the run-up to the recent publication of our book, Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the 21st Century (University of North Carolina Press). We wrote the book because we think this is an important question. Friends of higher education who believe, as we do, that universities are the key to taking the U.S. economy to a prosperous and more egalitarian future need examples and evidence to help make the case for investment in universities and basic research.

But before we attempt to define the entrepreneurial university, let’s agree on what it’s not.

By Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein

Full Story: http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/09/27/thorp

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