Chapter 10 Scholarly Practice and Meaningful Research: Utilising Voice by Enabling Action … if it was only that Simple!

Abstract

The growing importance of 'lived practices' in entrepreneurship-related studies has sought to pose several questions and challenges for researchers/scholars in the field (Ruona & Gilley, 2009; Short, Keefer, & Stone, 2009). The issue of how current entrepreneurship research practices can become more applied in nature provides the basis for articulating more clearly what we mean by research impact and why it has become a central concern in the research field (Beyer

Trust initiation and development in SME-university collaborations: implications for enabling engaged scholarship

“…We are therefore concerned with the scholarship of application (Morrison and Wagner, 2017), in which faculty as collaborators apply knowledge and may also advance the scholarship of discovery (Boyer, 1996). This is more typical of such collaborations, than those ES relationships which involve larger public, private or not-for-profit organisations over longer timeframes (Orr and Jung, 2016) having an applied research agenda (Higgins and Smith, 2018). Collaborations tend to be focussed on seeking a solution to a defined problem in the SMEs core technical field (Santoro and Chakrabarti, 2002).…”

“…HRD clearly encompasses ES (Akdere and Egan, 2005), definitions highlighting its role as a process or activity that has the potential to develop work based knowledge and expertise for the wellbeing of society, including organisations (McClean and McClean, 2001). Co-created agendas can provide the means for developing skills, growth and business innovation as well as educating entrepreneurship graduates (Higgins and Smith, 2018); ES programmes can offer realistic training and development to students as examples of professional practice, collaborating through project based learning and internships (Furco, 2010) with community partners in service delivery (Paynter, 2014). For faculty ES may include service and outreach (knowledge application) activities such as participation in steering groups (Bager, 2018) and community based research (consultancy) (Furco, 2010) to address practical problems at firms' level (Frank and Landström, 2016).…”