Relevant quotes addressing the performance of the university as an ecosystem
| Actor | Question/Quote |
| Would you say universities behave like an ecosystem in generating innovation through their relationships with surrounding actors? Or do they still behave like closed businesses in generating innovation and transferring innovation? Comment on actors in the process and the model developed in Figure 1 | |
| Expert A | “We are developing an active role trying [to make the University] act as a real ecosystem. For us, the spinoffs are a way to [get] technology transfer to the market and the society” (…) “The more actors in the process, the more possibility for success (…) We [are] clear that, not only actors 1 to 5 have to be on the process, but also other networks, relationships with other universities, etc. This is what makes a process successful and strong” |
| Expert B | “I absolutely agree we have to become an ecosystem” (…) “In general, effective collaboration among actors in the ecosystem should be improved (…) the same at the micro level (encouraging, motivating for researchers, etc.) to the macro (joint institutionalized programs: corporate–investment–startups–university)” |
| Expert D | “Yes I do believe this, as a matter of fact, I believe that close innovation should be the exception. Innovation and technology transfer from the university is such an extremely difficult task that the diversity implied in open innovation makes it more likely to succeed than the closed one” |
| Expert F | “Of course, the open economy perspective should be integrated in the University. I think we are working [in] this way” (…) “Also, latest initiatives in the TTOs are more focused [on] establishing informal relationships between researchers and companies before the research project arises” |
| Actor | Question/Quote |
| Would you say universities behave like an ecosystem in generating innovation through their relationships with surrounding actors? Or do they still behave like closed businesses in generating innovation and transferring innovation? Comment on actors in the process and the model developed in | |
| Expert A | “We are developing an active role trying [to make the University] act as a real ecosystem. For us, the spinoffs are a way to [get] technology transfer to the market and the society” (…) “The more actors in the process, the more possibility for success (…) We [are] clear that, not only actors 1 to 5 have to be on the process, but also other networks, relationships with other universities, etc. This is what makes a process successful and strong” |
| Expert B | “I absolutely agree we have to become an ecosystem” (…) “In general, effective collaboration among actors in the ecosystem should be improved (…) the same at the micro level (encouraging, motivating for researchers, etc.) to the macro (joint institutionalized programs: corporate–investment–startups–university)” |
| Expert D | “Yes I do believe this, as a matter of fact, I believe that close innovation should be the exception. Innovation and technology transfer from the university is such an extremely difficult task that the diversity implied in open innovation makes it more likely to succeed than the closed one” |
| Expert F | “Of course, the open economy perspective should be integrated in the University. I think we are working [in] this way” (…) “Also, latest initiatives in the TTOs are more focused [on] establishing informal relationships between researchers and companies before the research project arises” |
Sharing content requires targeting cookies to be enabled. Please update your cookie preferences to use this feature.