Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Colleges: An Interpretive Study of the Piloting of Innovation Centres.

McWilliam, Carol L.

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Colleges: An Interpretive Study of the Piloting of Innovation Centres.

McWilliam, Carol L.

Canadian Journal of Higher Education, v20 n3 p85-102 1990

A study of Ontario (Canada) colleges examined the government fiscal policy, profitability motives, bureaucratic organizational norms, incrementalism, and political and power relationships that impede successful integration of centers of innovation and entrepreneurship into colleges. Other factors not yet researched are discussed. (Author/MSE)

Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Organizational Climate, Political Influences, Power Structure, Public Policy

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Language: English

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