The Role of Universities in Regional Development: Conceptual Models and Policy Institutions in the UK, Sweden and Austria

Trippl, Michaela; Sinoƶic, Tanja; Smith, Helen Lawton

doi:10.1080/09654313.2015.1052782

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“…Cooperation between universities and firms is reported at the NIS literature as key for knowledge creation and therefore for innovation (Rapini et al, 2015). The so-called entrepreneurial university incorporates economic development as a university mission complementing their traditional contributions of research and teaching (Trippl, Sinozic, & Smith, 2015).…”

Section: Nis and University-industry Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects

Thomas

Vieira

Balestrin

2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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The literature about collaboration for innovation has reported fundamental activities performed by intermediaries. In this paper, universities' technology transfer offices (TTOs) are placed as intermediaries between academic research and the industry. Our study focuses on collaborative research and development (R&D) projects between universities and industry in order to understand the roles of TTOs throughout the whole duration of the project. The main aim of this paper is to identify the roles of TTOs throughout collaborative R&D projects and suggest some lessons for Brazilian TTOs based on the experience of the United Kingdom. Through qualitative case studies in the United Kingdom and Brazil, the analyses show that both TTOs performed critical activities for collaborative R&D projects. Similar activities at both TTOs were the management of partnerships in terms of negotiating contracts and the protection and licensing of intellectual property. Findings also show that the search for partners in the beginning of the project, the pacifier role of the TTO to help mutual understanding, and the active commercialisation of academic research to external partners happened only in the UK case, which may generate implications for TTOs in Brazil.

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Section: Nis and University-industry Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects

Thomas

Vieira

Balestrin

2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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“…In this regard, special emphasis has been given regarding the role of universities in development construction nowadays (Trippl et al, 2015). Universities should not only serve as the actors' articulator (e.g., innovation systems and incumbent firms), but also as an environment encouraging the entrepreneurial activity among the students.…”

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Institutional determinants of student employer entrepreneurs at Catalan universities

Urbano

Aparicio

Guerrero

et al. 2017

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractThis article investigates the influence of informal and formal institutions on the university students' decision of becoming employer entrepreneurs in the context of Catalonia. A sample of 1,207 students from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya were surveyed for the period of 2012-2015, and probit regressions over pooled data were used. The main findings suggest that formal factors (university's lack of incentives to create a new business, entrepreneurial knowledge, training and skills, and entrepreneurship education) are higher correlated with the student employer entrepreneurs than informal institutions (role models, entrepreneur's social image and fear of failure). Despite that the entrepreneur's social image does not seem to have an influence on the entrepreneurial decision of university students, the other variables analysed are statistically significant, correlated with entrepreneurship as a choice. Specifically, entrepreneurship education is the most relevant variable in explaining the decision of university students becoming employer entrepreneurs. The paper contributes with policy discussions in order to extend the current debate about the role of the universities in the entrepreneurial process and also the importance of entrepreneurial universities to the society.2

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“…There is a growing stream of literature acknowledging universities as one of the key factors for regional development particularly in relation to high-tech industries (Guerrero, Urbano, & Fayolle, 2016;Trippl, Sinozic, & Lawton Smith, 2015). This can also be observed in Linköping.…”

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confidence: 91%

Local culture as a context for entrepreneurial activities

Fredin

Jogmark

2017

European Planning Studies

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This paper examines how an industrial legacy leads to the formation of a distinct local culture and how the culture's survival provides a context for the subsequent entrepreneurial activities in new local industries. The discussion about culture as a key driver of entrepreneurship and economic growth is well established in the academic debate. However, we know little about how culture is formed. Through a qualitative case study of two polar Swedish cities, the study highlights four key factors which are instrumental in the formation of local culture: initial conditions, characteristics of key players, network activities and composition of newcomers. We show how the local entrepreneurs responded to the underlying assumptions of the two different cultures. ARTICLE HISTORY

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The Role of Universities in Regional Development: Conceptual Models and Policy Institutions in the UK, Sweden and Austria

Cited by 171 publications

References 41 publications

Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects

Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects

Institutional determinants of student employer entrepreneurs at Catalan universities

Local culture as a context for entrepreneurial activities

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