Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Introduction to Entrepreneurial Universities: Creating Institutional Innovation in Times of Turbulence .- 2. The Status of Innovation in Africa's Development Strategy: Where should Science and Technology Fit in? .- 3. Commercialisation of Science at British Universities .- 4. Research, policy and practice in knowledge transfer: towards an all-inclusive approach .- 5. Spin-off Strategy and Technology Transfer Office: Cases in Sweden .- 6. Entrepreneurial Universities: A Case Study of the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria .- 7. Revisiting the New Entrepreneurial University: in Times of Uncertainty .- 8. Entrepreneurial intentions amongst African Students: A Case Illustration of University of Education, Winneba, Ghana.
