Entrepreneurial university strategies in the UK context: towards a research agenda

Pickernell, David; Ishizaka, Alessio; Huang, Shuangfa; Senyard, Julienne

doi:10.1108/md-10-2018-1162

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“…While universities are therefore looking forward to securing alternative income streams. The focus is often not currently either on SMEs or training (e.g., see Pickernell et al, 2019).…”

Section: Discussion: the Potential Role Of University‐based Managemenmentioning

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“…Universities have long been recognized as having the potential to assist more directly in innovation and delivering growth (Pickernell, Ishizaka, Huang, & Senyard, 2019). Universities and business schools are also facing ever-increasing financial pressures in their core business, with uncertainly about the future of government funding regimes for undergraduate education, increasing UK and global competition for international students and research funding, and the need to demonstrate a broader impact (Woolcott, Keast, & Pickernell, 2019).…”

Section: Networking Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Networking and strategic planning to enhance small and medium‐sized enterprises growth in a less competitive economy

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Competition and day‐to‐day firefighting prevents small businesses from undertaking the most effective types of strategic planning and networking for growth and innovation. Poor or inappropriate execution of these activities highlights the need for targeted managerial training. Potential explanations for the weak growth of many SMEs focus on the limited use of strategic planning and networking activities. Data from a management survey of SMEs in South East Wales shows that where these activities are undertaken the type of networking and information sought from it is often not that most associated with innovation and growth. Therefore, it may not be their absence per se, but the poor or inappropriate execution of these activities that is the key problem. This deficiency highlights the need for targeted managerial training in these areas.

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“…While universities are therefore looking forward to securing alternative income streams. The focus is often not currently either on SMEs or training (e.g., see Pickernell et al, 2019).…”

Section: Discussion: the Potential Role Of University‐based Managemenmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Table 2 shows that most of the studies were done in economically more prosperous regions, such as Europe (Bjerregaard, 2009; Gordon et al, 2012; Johnston and Huggins, 2018; Lockett et al, 2008). It also reveals that U–SME cooperation is sometimes the result of partnerships encouraged by government programmes (Malairaja and Zawdie, 2008; Pickernell et al, 2019). In developing countries, research does not produce rigorous results due to the low level of cooperation between parties (Temel et al, 2013).…”

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Cooperation between universities and SMEs: A systematic literature review

Pereira

Franco

2021

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This study aims to present the relationship between universities and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through a systematic literature review. SMEs play an important role in economic development. Similarly, universities are important actors in the innovation system. To fulfil the study objective, data were collected from the Scopus database. The bibliometric results found, using bibliometrix software, reveal that this topic first appeared in the literature in 1995 and entered a growth stage in 2014. Systematically, studies have focused mostly on European countries and the emphasis in cooperation is on knowledge transfer. In addition, the results show that SMEs form cooperative relationships with universities in search of competitive results. However, the main difficulty with regard to the establishment of such relationships is a lack of knowledge in SMEs about university programmes that can support them and about how to access such programmes. Therefore, it is suggested that universities should establish more effective communication channels in order to reach this type of firm.

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“…In the case of universities, Fuller et al (2019), Pickernell et al (2019) and Ishizaka et al (2020) identify, previous dichotomous definitions of universities into being research or teaching focused, can now be seen to be too simplistic. Universities instead exist along a spectrum between these two extremes, offering different combinations of supporting relevant research and training activities within RIS.…”

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Systematic literature review paper: the regional innovation system-university-science park nexus

2021

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Recent work on Region Innovation Systems (RIS) has emphasised the importance of universities. Until recently, however, related insights into the dynamics of this relationship in respect of the specific role of the science park have been limited. This paper presents a systematic review identifying the key roles of each actor in relation to innovation. We link the dynamic roles performed by the university between science parks and the RIS. Our results enable us to identify how the key activities performed by the university change during its interrelations within the RIS and with the science park. Our analysis of the literature distinguishes between three sets of relationships through which the university plays differing roles: RIS-university, RIS-university-science park, and university-science park. Respectively, the University’s relationships between these different RIS actors focuses on: resource sharing, brokerage, and commercialisation-exploitation. Secondly, we find that within each of these relationship types the university can perform three types of roles: on knowledge co-creation, acting as conduit, and inter-organisational relationship building. Distinguishing between these differing relationships and roles enables us to identify a total of nine dynamic roles performed by the University, which include: provision of information, channels of communication, infrastructure, regional networking, building research collaboration, acting as knowledge intermediaries, economic development, technological change and commercialisation processes, and start up creation and commercialisation. The review identifies several gaps in the literature in need of further research, and suggests that university relationships with RIS, interlinked with those between the university and science park itself, are important factors affecting science park innovation performance.

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Entrepreneurial university strategies in the UK context: towards a research agenda

Cited by 15 publications

References 51 publications

Networking and strategic planning to enhance small and medium‐sized enterprises growth in a less competitive economy

Networking and strategic planning to enhance small and medium‐sized enterprises growth in a less competitive economy

Cooperation between universities and SMEs: A systematic literature review

Systematic literature review paper: the regional innovation system-university-science park nexus

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