Stakeholders’ Perception for Development of an Entrepreneurial and Innovative Institution

Abstract

The present paper aims at showing the way in which we can determine the importance given to a
higher education institution, on the basis of its self-assessment, by the internal and external stakeholders, using
the HEInnovate tool. The objective of the work was to identify the most relevant aspects of the entrepreneurship
and innovation in a higher education institution (HEI) from Romania, by establishing the level of the
perceptions of the main groups involved in the evaluation. As study methods, the semantic differential (SD)
and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used. Also, to determine the groups of respondents that
participate in the self-assessment, between which there are significant differences of perception, the Least
Significant Difference (LSD) was used. Research revealed that the respondents perceived as equally important
all pillars, giving them a favorable score (average score) ranging between 3.51 and 3.81.