The Path for a Hungarian University to Become a Learning Organisation

11 Pages Posted: 19 Nov 2018

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Réka Barabás

Széchenyi István University

Zsuzsanna Pupp

zéchenyi István University

Date Written: September 6, 2018

Abstract

Ever since the Lisbon Summit in 2000, the European Commission has treated universities as engines of economic development. The University of the 21st century has to foster an entrepreneurial culture and encourage students to develop entrepreneurial initiative and seek innovation, and university needs to adapt its academic services to market realities, managing this process. Due to various reasons, e.g., universities operate supported by state, and could in the same time function as entrepreneurial organisations. However, universities do not have the pressure for performance improvement, as in the market-driven sector, mainly since enrolment is centralized, indicating that university reforms in Hungary are inevitable. Széchenyi István University has maintained and developed a cooperation with Audi Hungaria for the last 20 years which has permitted the establishment of an extended cooperation network in the region with many actors of the economic sector. From this point of view, we analyse the opportunities and needs of Hungarian universities to change, develop and to search for a way for our university to become a successful learning organisation.

Keywords: triple helix, university reforms, entrepreneurial university, learning organisation

JEL Classification: I23

Suggested Citation

Barabás, Réka and Pupp, Zsuzsanna, The Path for a Hungarian University to Become a Learning Organisation (September 6, 2018). 2018 ENTRENOVA Conference Proceedings, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3283753 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3283753

Réka Barabás (Contact Author)

Széchenyi István University ( email )

Egyetem tér 1.
Győr, 9026
Hungary

Zsuzsanna Pupp

zéchenyi István University ( email )

Egyetem tér 1.
Győr, 9026
Hungary

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