The IV Global Entrepreneurship University Metrics (GEUM) Workshop is being organized as a virtual event, February 24 to 26, 2021, in the virtual model, broadcast by YouTube
One of the characteristics of the entrepreneurial university is active participation in the search for solutions regarding social and economic development, involving interaction with various participants in the social sphere, whilst simultaneously pursuing its missions of teaching, research and outreach. The entrepreneurial university has become a global phenomenon, active on every continent, adopting an isomorphic developmental approach that starts from its own paths and needs and possesses aspects that distinguish it from traditional institutions. In developing countries they have become a source of solutions to local problems.
This changing role of the university is independent of its previous development and academic tradition. Traditional activities have been revised to include entrepreneurial elements, both for the attraction of outside resources and for determining new ways in which knowledge can be used to drive social and economic growth in the most varied fields of knowledge and thereby collaborating to generate new jobs and the creation of business start-ups.
One recurring theme in relation to universities is the evaluation methods, such as national and international ranking or the national assessment systems in certain countries. One observed feature of these methodologies is the lack of indicators relating to the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship and that gap also persists in the production of knowledge about entrepreneurial universities.
The IV Global Entrepreneurship University Metrics (GEUM) Workshop is part of a series of international events aimed at promoting discussion of this pioneering research topic, organized around an international research project, the “Global Entrepreneurial University Metrics Initiative (GEUM)”, proposed and conducted by Prof. Henry Etzkowitz, of the Triple Helix Association, based in Italy, in partnership with the International Triple Helix Institute, located in California (USA), which over the years has been bringing together researchers, figures responsible for public policies and specialists in university-industry interaction, with a view to discussing the criteria to be used in assessing university entrepreneurship and innovation indicators.
In Brazil, this research project, denominated “Proposal and Validation of Entrepreneurial University Indicators” (E26/010.001846/2015), is supported by FAPERJ (Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Support to Research in the State of Rio de Janeiro), an agency that fosters science, technology and innovation in the state of Rio de Janeiro, under Faperj Notice n° 15/2015 – Support Program for Educational and Research Institutions based in the State of Rio de Janeiro – 2015.
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