The ‘entrepreneurial turn’ and regional economic development mission of universities

Abstract

O31, O32, O38, O17,

Evolving missions and university entrepreneurship: academic spin-offs and graduate start-ups in the entrepreneurial society

“…Goldstein 2010;Siegel et al 2003). These include TTOs' expertise and networking capacity, and their ability to recognize opportunities and organize equity ownership for the spin-offs O'Shea et al 2005).…”

“…The existence of internal structures such as TTOs or incubators has been recognised as important assets for commercialization activities (Goldstein 2010) and is considered critical organizational factor (Siegel et al 2003) as well as expression of the university's capacity and likelihood to promote entrepreneurship. In order to control for the availability of these infrastructures, we create a dummy variable with the value 1 if the university has incubators (on-campus or in the locality) and/or a scientific park accommodation and 0 otherwise.…”

A Contemporary Approach to Entrepreneurship Education and Training

“…The development of such ecosystem that is growth generating is important to ensure that capacity building for innovative entrepreneurship programmes is materialized. Ultimately, the researchers propose that policies in favour of innovative entrepreneurship as a target approach should be considered in the context of a holistic entrepreneurship policy framework which addresses all the other issues, such as societal support for an entrepreneurship culture, promotion of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education in school and higher education, general administrative, regulatory and legislative barriers to business entry, flexible labour markets and business support measures for the development of nascent entrepreneurs in their pursuit of any manner of business idea (Etzkowitz and Klofsten, 2005;Rothaermel et al, 2007;Goldsten, 2008;Pilbeam, 2008;PACEC, 2009). In this article, we have identify reliable ways of assessing the innovative entrepreneurship building success in higher education system in respect of its impact on the entrepreneurship programmes, the entrepreneurial intention, impact to society, economy, and human capital development.…”

Instituciones, innovación y transferencia de conocimiento: contribuciones de los estudios sobre las variedades del capitalismo

“…Una limitación importante de los enfoques descritos es la dificultad para analizar escalas subnacionales, donde las cuestiones de proximidad y el aprendizaje son esenciales, algo que es considerado como el paradigma actual de los sistemas regionales de innovación (Carrincazeaux, Lung y Vicente, 2008;Gossling y Rutten, 2007;Asheim y Gertler, 2004;Asheim y Isaksen, 2002;Cooke, 1998). Varios autores han hecho un esfuerzo para conciliar los dos enfoques.…”