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Any organization with a<strong>de</strong>quate incomes compared to the needs and the aspirations has a<br />

minimal motivation to engage in risky innovations. In this case, if a university is not authorized<br />

to retain and manage autonomous their own generated revenues, it is not an economic incentive<br />

to supplement the budgetary allocations through the sale of aca<strong>de</strong>mic services. The financial<br />

constraints and opportunities are the key factors of the entrepreneurial activity orientation.<br />

In this respect, the case studies reported in the countries participating in European Universities<br />

for Entrepreneurship - their Role in the Europe of Knowledge (EUEREK) 37 suggest that<br />

severe financial constraints may inhibit creative entrepreneurship because many innovations<br />

require initial investment and some financial risks that institutions with limited resources are not<br />

willing to take. Typically, any additional income arising from research and teaching is cashed<br />

at the university central level and not at the level of university’s faculties, <strong>de</strong>partments or work<br />

teams. Such arrangements do not encourage entrepreneurial behaviour at individual level or<br />

working groups level in the university. Governments can stimulate entrepreneurial behaviour of<br />

universities by the mechanisms used for allocating resources. If they are allocated for the<br />

aca<strong>de</strong>mic services provi<strong>de</strong>d, for the aspirations and achievements in research or for stu<strong>de</strong>nts<br />

recruitment, the higher education institutions are encouraged to be oriented to the specific<br />

market and entrepreneurial behaviour.<br />

The major financial indicators for assessing the potential of the business activities of the<br />

universities are: the source of incomes (public represented by budgetary allocations and private<br />

represented by for their own incomes), the mechanisms by which incomes are received, the<br />

procedures for allocating resources within the institutions.<br />

The entrepreneurship dimension in universities can be measured by their entrepreneurial<br />

behaviour. Five different categories of entrepreneurial behaviour can be observed in the<br />

EUEREK project<br />

- private universities that have the advantage of the new entrants into higher education (English<br />

universities have private profile and are similar to the U.S. universities where governing<br />

organisms are similar to corporate management boards);<br />

- institutions highly involved in terms of entrepreneurship stimulated by government initiatives;<br />

- major in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt institutions involved from the entrepreneurial perspective but not directly<br />

stimulated by government initiatives;<br />

- small <strong>de</strong>partments, faculties and research centres;<br />

- education with the help of associate teaching staff, research and counselling by involving each<br />

individual aca<strong>de</strong>mic staff.<br />

In 2004, the institutional case studies had very different income profiles. Budget income<br />

reached rates of 70% in universities in Finland, Poland, Spain to 0% in private universities from<br />

Moldova, Poland, Spain and UK. Study fees are complementary to state budget funding in these<br />

extreme cases ranging from over 90 per cent in the private universities in Poland and Spain to<br />

zero in Finland and Swe<strong>de</strong>n. The percentage of non-government source of income from research<br />

ranges from over 60 per cent in one of the UK (Nottingham) institutions to zero in some<br />

Moldovan and Polish universities. These differences <strong>de</strong>pend on the different legal and political<br />

situation of universities in these countries. For example, in Finland and Swe<strong>de</strong>n the educational<br />

activities of universities are still regar<strong>de</strong>d as a public service and they are not allowed to charge<br />

fees for any of their regular teaching activities, although recent changes in their legal status now<br />

permit universities to charge some fees for courses that are not part of their mainstream<br />

37 European Universities Project for Entrepreneurship - their Role in the Europe of Knowledge is fun<strong>de</strong>d un<strong>de</strong>r the<br />

FP6-CITIZENS, having as coordinator University of London / Institute of Education (UK).The project studied the<br />

activities of European universities and how national funding and planning arrangements affects them. They were<br />

i<strong>de</strong>ntified the steps to improve the effectiveness of universities as producers and transmitters of knowledge.<br />

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