Entrepreneurial transformation of universities in terms of the fourth industrial revolution

Authors

  • Olga L. Zhuk Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

fourth industrial revolution, entrepreneurial university, socio-entrepreneurial university 4.0, advance education
Supporting Agencies
The article is prepared with the financial support of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus aimed at fulfilling the state task of sectoral scientific and technical program «Upbringing through Teaching» (No. ГР 20181609).

Abstract

The article deals with socio-cultural factors which actualize the entrepreneurial transformation of the contemporary university in terms of the fourth industrial revolution. The directions, peculiarities and problems of functioning and development of entrepreneurial universities are identified. The author gives examples of the models of universities 3.0 which are implied on the basis of universities in Belarus and other countries. The increasing importance of traditional university values such as teaching, upbringing, socialization and research are based. The strengthening role of socio-cultural function of entrepreneurial universities and the objective necessity of a transition from university 3.0 to university 4.0 under contemporary terms are underlined. Basic approaches to the modernization of the educational process, implementation of which reinforces the social function of entrepreneurial universities are defined.

Author Biography

  • Olga L. Zhuk, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    doctor of science (pedagogics), full professor; head of the department of pedagogics and education development problems

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Published

2019-04-11

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No. 1 (2019): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Journalism and Pedagogics

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Pedagogics

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How to Cite

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Zhuk, O.L. 2019. Entrepreneurial transformation of universities in terms of the fourth industrial revolution. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Journalism. 1 (Apr. 2019), 108–116.