In our study, general university characteristics have the strongest influence on climate perceptions.
Building on a capability perspective, we add to the literature on university characteristics and resources by exploring how the university context impacts the entrepreneurial process.
The top 3 most important university characteristics and information sources do not change across types of goals, but important particularities are identified.
Combining data from two unique datasets and using multilevel techniques, we analyze the relationship between university characteristics and such climate perceptions of 8009 students at public universities in Germany.
However, there is significant unobserved heterogeneity at the university level in all models, suggesting that differences in other university characteristics explain a substantial part of the variance in patent quality.
While it is generally acknowledged that there has been a dramatic increase in licensing, there is little understanding of the licensing process as it relates to university characteristics, nor is there evidence on the extent to which this is the result of increased resources devoted to commercialization or whether it stems from other factors.
Many existing models of student engagement reflect the latter set of definitions, depicting engagement as a complex, psychosocial process involving both student and university characteristics.
Rinne and Koivula (2005) enumerate university characteristics such as making a distinction between theory and practice, elitism and an emphasis on autonomy as a tendency towards an ivory tower institution.
Noteworthy, these opinions seem to be shaped more by university characteristics and religious beliefs than socio-demographic data.
Furthermore, the relationships between determinants and university students' eating behaviour seemed to be moderated by university characteristics, such as residency, student societies, university lifestyle and exams.
The framework consists of four major levels, i.e. individual (intrapersonal), social environment (interpersonal), physical environment (community settings), macro environment, and an additional level of university characteristics.
