Engines of Innovation

Engines of Innovation
Title Engines of Innovation PDF eBook
Author Holden Thorp
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 200
Release 2013-08-12
Genre Education
ISBN 1469611848

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In Engines of Innovation, Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein make the case for the pivotal role of research universities as agents of societal change. They argue that universities must use their vast intellectual and financial resources to confront global challenges such as climate change, extreme poverty, childhood diseases, and an impending worldwide shortage of clean water. They provide not only an urgent call to action but also a practical guide for our nation's leading institutions to make the most of the opportunities available to be major players in solving the world's biggest problems. A preface and a new chapter by the authors address recent developments, including innovative licensing strategies, developments in online education, and the value of arts and sciences in an entrepreneurial society.

Innovation and the Entrepreneurial University

Innovation and the Entrepreneurial University
Title Innovation and the Entrepreneurial University PDF eBook
Author Dirk Meissner
Publisher Springer
Pages 327
Release 2018-03-26
Genre Science
ISBN 3319626493

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The book explores different approaches towards the ‘entrepreneurial university’ paradigm, explores channels and mechanism used by universities to implement the paradigm and contributes to the public discussion on the impact of commercialization on university research and knowledge. It argues that different types of university-industry interaction may have repercussions even on funding of basic research if an appropriate balance is ensured between the two. University activities – both research and education in all forms – should provide economic and social relevance directed towards open science and open innovation. This book adds value to current knowledge by presenting both a conceptual framework and case studies which describe different contexts.

Entrepreneurial Universities

Entrepreneurial Universities
Title Entrepreneurial Universities PDF eBook
Author Marta Peris-Ortiz
Publisher Springer
Pages 0
Release 2016-12-22
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9783319479484

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This book analyses the importance of the entrepreneurial university, specifically in relation to the creation of entrepreneurial ideas and attitudes in students and entrepreneurial initiatives in academic institutions. The aim of the editors and contributing authors is to provide the reader with a set of experiences illustrating the advantages of communicating and encouraging entrepreneurship among students, thereby highlighting the “third mission” of the university: the need to adopt entrepreneurial strategy without disrupting the quality of teaching and research. Featuring initiatives from institutions around the world, the authors argue that the increasing importance of knowledge in the technical and social dimensions of today’s world provides greater relevance to the entrepreneurial university. In this context, universities transcend their traditional focus on teaching and basic research to carry out technology transfers, marketing ideas, and patent registrations, and incorporate spin-off companies that contribute to industrial innovations, economic growth, and job creation. In the teaching dimension, the entrepreneurial university represents a focus on programs which train students in the applications and most advanced practices in knowledge-driven fields. The book addresses such questions as: Can marketing ideas deteriorate the quality of research in the long term? What importance does the cultural framework have for an entrepreneurial education? What circumstances and programs facilitate spin-offs in universities What are the key features of entrepreneurial universities? In reference to entrepreneurship education in its broadest sense, then, it corresponds to the framework of ideas and general features on which entrepreneurship is founded: in-depth knowledge of the projects or ventures which they wish to carry out, capacity to perceive the relevant characteristics of the environment, and the leadership and goal setting skills to achieve success.

Innovation in Global Entrepreneurship Education

Innovation in Global Entrepreneurship Education
Title Innovation in Global Entrepreneurship Education PDF eBook
Author Heidi M. Neck
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
Pages 336
Release 2021-02-26
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1839104201

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As entrepreneurship education grows across disciplines and permeates through various areas of university programs, this timely book offers an interdisciplinary, comparative and global perspective on best practices and new insights for the field. Through the theoretical lens of collaborative partnerships, it examines innovative practices of entrepreneurship education and advances understanding of the discipline.

Entrepreneurial Universities

Entrepreneurial Universities
Title Entrepreneurial Universities PDF eBook
Author Sola Adesola
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 209
Release 2020-09-12
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 3030480135

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This book explores the idea of the ‘Entrepreneurial University’ within the institutional environment that focuses on the production, dissemination, and exploitation of knowledge. Keeping its gaze firmly on the constitutive elements of the knowledge-based institutional environment – the key actors and their interactions – the book makes important theoretical and empirical contributions to the burgeoning literature on academic entrepreneurship. The contributing chapters in the book draw insights from a range of disciplines including history, institutional and evolutionary economics, strategic management, entrepreneurship, and innovation studies to explore how institutions can create new business opportunities in turbulent times. This interdisciplinary approach has generated a rich and diverse set of insights on the idea of Entrepreneurial Universities for students, researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in innovation and technology studies, entrepreneurship, and knowledge management.

Entrepreneurial Universities in Innovation-Seeking Countries

Entrepreneurial Universities in Innovation-Seeking Countries
Title Entrepreneurial Universities in Innovation-Seeking Countries PDF eBook
Author Marina Dabic
Publisher Springer
Pages 253
Release 2018-04-05
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 113757982X

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This book considers how an entrepreneurial university can improve the social and economic development of countries which are technologically underdeveloped, exploring university models in two moderately innovative countries: Spain and Croatia.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Title Innovation and Entrepreneurship PDF eBook
Author Peter Drucker
Publisher Routledge
Pages 365
Release 2014-09-15
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1317601351

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How can management be developed to create the greatest wealth for society as a whole? This is the question Peter Drucker sets out to answer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. A brilliant, mould-breaking attack on management orthodoxy it is one of Drucker’s most important books, offering an excellent overview of some of his main ideas. He argues that what defines an entrepreneur is their attitude to change: ‘the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity’. To exploit change, according to Drucker, is to innovate. Stressing the importance of low-tech entrepreneurship, the challenge of balancing technological possibilities with limited resources, and the organisation as a learning organism, he concludes with a vision of an entrepreneurial society where individuals increasingly take responsibility for their own learning and careers. With a new foreword by Joseph Maciariello