... the role of the universities as strategic drivers in inducing an entrepreneurial mindset. Design/methodology/approach An exhaustive literature review of extant research followed by an exploratory study was conducted. Furthermore, to understand factors influencing the role of universities, interpretive...

...Mats A. Lundqvist; Karen L. Williams Middleton Purpose Venture creation is often seen as the form of academic entrepreneurship least compatible with the role of university scientists. The purpose of the article is to explore the changing role of university scientists towards venture creation...

...Nigel Culkin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore, evaluate and share the motivations and behaviours of student and graduate entrepreneurs (referred to as SGSUs) operating from university incubators. The study aims to understand the behaviours and motivations of SGSUs to build...

...Roger Sørheim; Lars Øystein Widding; Martin Oust; Øystein Madsen Purpose During the last decade, there has been an increasing focus on commercialization of knowledge and technology from universities. However, universities report financing as being the main impediment to successful university spin...

... small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), that have traditionally employed a lower proportion of graduates. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to help universities understand better what they could do to both prepare their graduates for jobs in small firms and to help them communicate better...

... experienced before becoming entrepreneurs, can be successfully grafted on to the more conventional offerings of a large university business school. Design/methodology/approach The authors create learning by allowing a small group of students with serious business ideas to actually be entrepreneurs (rather...

... (Poole and Robertson, 2003 ; Grigg, 1994). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Corporate strategy Business enterprise Education Entrepreneurialism Universities This paper seeks to answer two basic questions via the development of evaluative criteria and models of potential...

...Simon Mosey; Paul Westhead; Andy Lockett Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the Medici Fellowship Scheme addressed attitudinal and resource barriers to the commercialisation of knowledge within five research‐intensive universities. The following research questions were...

... dramatically since the early 1980s. From 300 in the early 1980s, the number of Universities offering entrepreneurship related courses grew to over 1600 by the early 21st century. The number of endowed entrepreneurship chairs reached almost 240 by 1999 and just over 400 by 2004. This widespread teaching...

...Michael C. Brennan; Anthony P. Wall; Pauric McGowan Purpose The aim of the paper was to investigate entrepreneurship in a university setting and in particular amongst university managers, established academic entrepreneurs and nascent academic entrepreneurs. The purpose was to better understand...

...Mauri Laukkanen It is increasingly expected that universities, besides research and teaching, should perform a third task as regional engines of innovation and economic growth. This paper discusses the role transformation and its demands upon university and faculty, including academic...

... that “new” (post‐1992) universities are more likely to offer consultancy services to small businesses. It is also claimed that owner/managers seem reluctant to pay full economic prices and would only subscribe to HEI‐based consultancy services if and when these are supported by considerable subsidies...

...Holger Muent This paper compares formal and informal modes of cooperation between SMEs in the post‐socialist transitional economy of Poland. It describes how small firms in a university environment utilise their networks of social relations to cope with some of the problems typical for SMEs...

... to bring people together in order to encourage networking, and this paper seeks to explore the process of facilitating an enterprise culture by examining the collaboration and partnership roles played by a LEC and a university in initiatives which foster enterprise. The relationship of the researchers...