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PurposeThe paper aims to contributes on the debates about University Idea Incubation by investigating the role and the engagement of different University's stakeholders in the process of opportunity recognition in an entrepreneurship education program targeted at students with an interdisciplinary background.Design/methodology/approachThrough a longitudinal case study methodology, the Contamination Lab at University of Salento (Lecce, Italy), the learning approaches and the knowledge process to create an entrepreneurial awareness, mindset and capability in students with different educational background are presented.FindingsThe findings demonstrates the crucial role of stakeholders' engagement for business idea presentation, open innovation challenge, contamination workshop on specialized topics, enterprise projects are important vehicle for effective students' business ideas and innovative projects development in a multidisciplinary environment. The close interaction among students, academia, companies and institutions creates a favourable environment that enables opportunity identification, idea generation through a deep contamination of knowledge, skills and experiences.Research limitations/implicationsLimitations include the need to generalise the results even if this limitation is typical of the case study methodology. Other research is necessary for an in-depth analysis in deep of the other Contamination Lab in Italy and to derive the “invariance traits” of this environment according to the features of the local entrepreneurial ecosystems.Practical implicationsImplications for practices include recommendations for designing innovative programs where the interactions between University-Institutions-Industry are realized.Originality/valueA conceptual framework is proposed by defining all the entrepreneurial knowledge process and knowledge creation within the Contamination Lab, highlighting the contribution of the stakeholders in each phase and learning initiative of the program.

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The purpose of this paper is to review and critique the literature on the role of smart cities within the healthcare context, providing an overview of the state of research and outlining a future research agenda. Initially, six hundred and seventeen newspaper articles were extracted from Scopus, and their content was analysed for the article selection process by the two researchers in parallel. Finally, forty-six articles dealing with smart cities in healthcare and published in various academic journals have been analysed through content analysis and bibliometric analysis. The results show that the literature on this research topic is somewhat scarce and dominated by unrelated research. Content analysis provides the emergence of three main strands of research: 1) Smart cities as a tool for health security; 2) Smart cities as sources of opportunities for data communication in healthcare; 3) Smart cities for the creation of knowledge and skills in healthcare. The paper presents the first attempt to provide a comprehensive, structured literature review of the role of smart cities in the healthcare environment after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite the growing literature on smart cities, this research area contextualised the healthcare context is still fragmented and under-theorised. More systematic and holistic studies are needed, considering the technological, economic, and social aspects of the importance of smart cities in the healthcare system.

In recent years, to solve the problems related to sustainability, there is an increasing need for a transition from linear production and consumption systems to new models oriented toward reusing, reducing and recycling. In the academic field, several scholars have turned their attention to the adoption by companies of the new circular economy (CE) models. Due to the interest of a large number of stakeholders in issues related to the CE, several scholars have begun to explore the CE disclosure (CED) practices of companies. Despite this, studies on the topic are still limited. This study, under the lens of communication and stakeholder theories, aims, first, to examine the level of CE information disseminated by companies via Twitter and, second, to explore the impact of some firm characteristics on the level of CED. The econometric analysis, conducted on a sample of 141 companies belonging to the S&P 500 index, shows that the most profitable and most indebted companies disclose a greater amount of CE information through their official Twitter accounts. Furthermore, it demonstrates a lower propensity by energy companies to disclose CE information via Twitter compared to firms operating in other highly polluting sectors.