A business model for the entrepreneurial university

What is it about?

We present a business model of the university as a research and teaching institution. We contrast private and public universities as two business-model archetypes and show how they determine incentive and governance structures. We then show how the inclusion of commercial transfer as the ‘third mission’ affects the university’s income structure and thereby its objective and incentive structure.

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Why is it important?

Within our business-model framework, we can derive strategic implications for the implementation of commercial transfer and the transition to the new business model.