Conveners
Yuzhuo Cai, Tampere University Finland (*email address protected*)
Karen Barrañon, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (*email address protected*)
In the knowledge-based society, entrepreneurial universities, as a key component in the Triple Helix model, have been playing an increasingly important role for socio-economic innovation and development (Etzkowitz, 2008). Although the original entrepreneurial university literature mainly refers to strong research universities and with empirical cases of in, for example, engineering and business disciplines (Clark, 1998; Etzkowitz, 2004), growing conception is that entrepreneurial universities can be all type (Gibb, Haskins and Robertson, 2013) and apply to all disciplines (Etzkowitz, 2014). With such a notion, a growing volume of studies have addressed socio-economic impact of entrepreneurial university mainly in the following aspects, such as technology transfer, cultivating labour force, enhancing the attractiveness of business environment, promoting social mobility, and changing local institutional contexts.
While any contributions for improving our understandings of entrepreneurial university and exploring the impact of entrepreneurial university on social and economic development in the track are welcomed, we are also expecting critical views and especially looking for those bring new theoretical and empirical insights on these issues. Some example questions are: How to perceive and measure the entrepreneurial university in different concepts? How to conceptualise and theorise entrepreneurial university for both research and application oriented higher education institutions with a special consideration of the local context? What are the dangers of misuse of the entrepreneurial university concept in university reforms? What should be the role of entrepreneurial university beyond its contribution to technology transfer and for regional economic development? What are the challenges or unintended consequences in the process of developing entrepreneurial university? Do we have alternative ways to resolve the problems that the entrepreneurial university is used to address?
References
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Cai, Y and Liu, C. (2015b). The role of universities in fostering knowledge-intensive clusters in Chinese regional innovation systems. Science and Public Policy, 42(1), 15-29. doi:10.1093/scipol/scu018.
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- ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY AND ITS SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT
- SCIENCE PARKS AND INCUBATORS – NEW FRONTIERS
- MEASURING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARKS
- REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF TRIPLE HELIX? CLUSTERS, CITIES AND GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES
- INDIVIDUALS IN THE TRIPLE HELIX
- BUSINESS LED TRIPLE HELIX AND THE NEW ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
- THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL INFORMATION FLOWS ON TRIPLE HELIX INTERACTIONS UNIVERSITY – INDUSTRY INTERACTIONS
- ARE WE FACING A NEW GENERATION OF NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS?
- THE TRIPLE HELIX MODEL AND KNOWLEDGE CREATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
- TRIPLE HELIX: GENDER, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DIVERSITY
- ADVANCING NEW MODELS AND TOOLS FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
- BOOSTING INNOVATION AND GROWTH THROUGH UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY CO-CREATION
- CLUSTER GOVERNANCE AS PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF TRIPLE HELIX AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT