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ON ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY: PROFESSORS´ ATTITUDES IN THE CROATIAN AND SPANISH

This paper presents an effort to identify the types of professors by their attitudes towards entrepreneurial university. We largely extend the original concept of entrepreneurial orientation by exploring the attitudes of university professors, to finally assess the possible existence of different types of supporters among the university human capital. A survey was conducted among a non-probability purposive sample of faculty members in Croatia and Spain. A combined technique of factor analysis and a subsequent cluster analysis of cases were applied. The attitudes are grouped into four factors: department orientation, industry collaboration, unconventionality and university policies. Three types of professors (clusters) have been identified. They are characterised in the paper for discussion. The “unsatisfied - disaffected professors” are a first group, who perceive a lack of institutional support for their ideas and present a risk of possible resignation in their entrepreneurial attitude. A second group is the “team-working professors”, who act in terms of the best for the group, being rather satisfied with their university and department policies for entrepreneurialism, although they think some policies need improvement. The third group are “the engagerprofessors”, who are thinking “outside the box” to overcome institutional limitations and are the key drivers of university-industry collaboration. The existence of “unsatisfied – disaffected” professors indicates a deficient functioning of the entrepreneurial university that must be faced in short. The mixture of the “team-working” and “engager” professors might be understood as a healthy university environment for strengthening the involvement of university in the economic growth and progress.

entrepreneurial university; attitudes; entrepreneurial orientation; department orientation; industry collaboration; university policies; unconventionality.

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