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1.3.4.5. The University Knowledge Entrepreneurship Model
The following model is used as a schematic frame to research the current strategic and organizational practice, in regards to the appropriation of internet based innovations, in universities. As depicted, the organizational condition determines the ability to develop and enact knowledge entrepreneurship, and this ability in turn greatly influences the appropriation of internet based innovations, which in turn influences institutional knowledge performance as a whole. The three missions of the university plus the ‘business administration’ task are the dimensions of knowledge entrepreneurship being examined.
When reflecting about the proposed model and its elements, one fundamental aspect to the presence and effectiveness of organizations knowledge entrepreneurship ability is not depicted. There are two elements to organizational knowledge entrepreneurship: (1) the individual’s motivation and skill to embrace the concept and (2) the systemic, organizational environment fostering or whittling down the potential. This problem is dealt with through the fractals property of adaptive complex systems as will be explained in the research approach.
The described model is investigated for the special case of the appropriation of internet based innovations for two reasons: Firstly, my personal background is in knowledge systems and internet based collaboration systems- so it logically is the field with which I am most familiar. Secondly, the internet has been said (Tiffin & Rajasingham, 2003) to have the potential to fundamentally revolutionize the way we learn and subsequently how education is organized around the world. Thus, if there is this potential (and some developments e.g. Open Educational Resources and the success of UOC point to it) the ability to develop knowledge entrepreneurship abilities in this field seem especially important. So the following reviews the literature regarding innovation in universities and the integration of ICT in particular.
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