The Instrumentarium for External Assessment of Autonomous Innovative Universities and Their Effectiveness

Abstract

The article is aimed at studying the potential of the Autonomy Scorecard instrumentarium (based on the EUA methodology), the world ranking methodologies for assessment of autonomous, innovatively active universities and their effectiveness. The relevance of the research is increasing due to the transition to a new generation university with a change in models (from the academic model (University 1.0) to an innovatively active research model (University 2.0) and an innovatively active model of entrepreneurial university (University 3.0). As a result of the study, 1) the features and limitations of the assessment of the components of university autonomy of the innovatively active research and entrepreneurial universities using the Autonomy Scorecard instrumentarium (based on the EUA methodology) are defined and systematized; 2) an in-depth analysis is carried out and recommendations on the possibilities and/or limitations of both the academic and the independent ratings for evaluating the effectiveness of autonomous, innovatively active universities are provided. The next steps of research are: 1) development of a system of indicators of autonomy of university, which will take into account the peculiarities of the activities of innovatively active research and entrepreneurial universities; 2) taking into account the components of academic freedom (according to the AFi index) in the external assessment of the effectiveness of autonomous, innovatively active universities.