...Rana Zayadin; Shumaila Yousafzai; Lynn M. Martin Purpose This micro-level study investigates how early career researchers (ECRs) in science disciplines navigate the institutional push toward commercialisation and entrepreneurial identity adoption. While entrepreneurial university institutional...

... structures and spatial ecosystems. Originality/value This study advances research on entrepreneurial universities, incubators and entrepreneurial ecosystems by introducing an evolutionary-configurational framework that explains how UIAs transform over time. It challenges static views of organisational...

... 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only University–industry collaboration Social capital Small business innovation Entrepreneurial university Entrepreneurial ecosystem Evidence from our research suggests...

... curricular and co-curricular initiatives; depending on the context, such as if student surrogate entrepreneurship is used, different types of support structure might also be needed to enable student venture creation. Originality/value Research on the entrepreneurial university has mainly focused...

... groupings or strategic profiles of universities defined by different combinations and strengths of the individual KT activities from which the overall rankings are derived. Previous research, concentrating on entrepreneurial universities, shows that individual knowledge transfer (KT) activities vary...

... beyond research and teaching, in calling on universities to engage business and society through dynamic knowledge exchange (DIUS, 2008 ; Foss and Gibson, 2015 ; HEIF, 2011 ; Nelles and Vorley, 2010). Although an entrepreneurial university is any university that undertakes entrepreneurial activities...

... and mission declarations (Cambridge, 2012 ; Cardiff, 2012). Patenting, however, also forms an important component of the entrepreneurial university, protecting its intellectual property (Baldini, 2009 ; Crespi et al., 2011). The traditional importance of patenting to firms’ (and universities...