Business Administration and Economics

This work paper is focused on the evaluation of university engagement in innovation (thethird mission of university), and aims to establish the main directions for improving the current systemsused to evaluate this university function in Romanian Higher Education. In the first part of the paper ageneral overview on models and indicators for evaluation of university third mission is presented. Thesecond part briefly describes how university participation in innovation is assessed in Romania. Finalconclusions summarize the previous analysis, and point out some recommendations of improvement.The novelty of the study consists in the complex analysis of the models used for the assessment ofuniversity third mission. The overview is based on methodologies presented in official publications andother studies related to the assessment of the universities’ engagement in innovation.

# University-Industry-Government Innovation Models # Business, Management and Accounting # Human Resources and Workforce # Social Sciences # Higher Education Governance and Development

Collective Authors (2021). "Business Administration and Economics". Acta Universitatis Danubius. OEconomica.