Innovation Lodestar: The entrepreneurial university in a stellar knowledge firmament

Etzkowitz, Henry

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2016.04.026

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“…We conceptualize an entrepreneurial university as a university undergoing institutional change to ensure its generation of knowledge is contributing to economic development (Clark, ). The entrepreneurial university focuses on ‘the creation of (a) research base with commercial potential’, engages in entrepreneurial activities through teaching and research, exploits industry collaboration and generates university spin‐offs (Clark, ; Etzkowitz et al, ; Etzkowitz, , p. 122, 123; Soetanto and van Geenhuizen, ). In other words, entrepreneurial universities engage and succeed in three activities simultaneously: ‘teaching, research and entrepreneurship’ (Guerrero et al, , p. 751).…”

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Realized absorptive capacity and entrepreneurial universities’ organizational change: the role of process innovation practices

2019

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Although essential to all institutions, organizational change is a complex and high risk activity. In this paper, we examine how organizations develop and implement capabilities to facilitate organizational change. Drawing on the dynamic capability perspective and a 'resourcing' synergy view, we investigate how realized absorptive capacity in terms of transformation and exploitation capability directly affects organizational change, and how process innovation practices act as an effective mechanism that link transformation and exploitation capability with organizational change. To distinguish our analysis, we focus on both an emerging organizational form and an emerging economy context. Specifically, on the basis of a questionnaire survey of 316 academics from entrepreneurial universities in Malaysia, we find that both transformation and exploitation capability are facilitators of organizational change. However, the relationship of transformation capability with organizational change is fully mediated by process innovation practices, while the relationship between exploitation capability and organizational change is partially mediated by process innovation practices. Our research therefore contributes to the dynamic capability perspective of organizational change and absorptive capacity by highlighting the importance of integrating organizational transformation and exploitation capability with process innovation practices in different ways to facilitate organizational change. Our findings and accompanying discussion on how process innovation practices can generate moves towards universities that are more entrepreneurial will also be of interest to university managers and policy makers.

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“…Firms are compelled to acquire access to university knowledge. "The 'capitalization of knowledge' is at the heart of the entrepreneurial academic mission, linking universities to users of knowledge more tightly and establishing the university as an economic actor in its own right" (Etzkowitz 2017). We have discussed the impact of ideologies on the science system.…”

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“…On the one hand, "universities are facing pressure to maximize social return and public investment in research to enhance universities self-sustenance" (Markman et al 2008). The idea to conceive of universities as smart, capitalized, innovative, problem-solving providers, as suggested by Etzkowitz (2017), is portraying the end of one turn at the crossroads. At the end of the opposite road we may find the idea to declare the university a private good and research as well as (higher) education as a social technology and (critical) infrastructure of society.…”

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Transdisciplinarity: science for and with society in light of the university’s roles and functions

Scholz

2020

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The idea that universities should become entrepreneurial, commercialized, private commodities or should serve politicians and governmental agencies has been promoted by the university-industry-government relationship-based Triple Helix approach and is reality in many places. In contrast, a reemphasis on universities serving the public good has been demanded by proponents of transdisciplinary sustainability research. To better understand the tensions between public-good-oriented approaches of transdisciplinarity and entrepreneurial, market-oriented Triple Helix and third-mission approaches of science-practice collaboration, this paper takes a closer look at the history of universities' roles and functions. We then elucidate the practice of transdisciplinary processes and discuss the "science for and with society" approach of transdisciplinary sustainable transitioning. We argue that transdisciplinarity for producing groundbreaking sociotechnical solutions has to serve (a) the public good and (b) calls for independence, academic freedom, institutionalization, and proper funding schemes. Third-mission conceptions that follow the commercialization/capitalization of scientific knowledge are in conflict with the conception of science and of transdisciplinarity serving sustainable transitioning. The development of groundbreaking ideas for sustainable transitions must acknowledge the complexity and contextualization of real-world settings. Therefore, collaboration between practice and transdisciplinarity calls for the input and cooperation of authentic practitioners, i.e., the experts of practice and real wold complexity. The challenge of transdisciplinarity is to properly relate the fundamental expertise of practice to validated academic rigor. This implies that transdisciplinary research is a critical element of the university's research mission.Publisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

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“…Research on technology transfer originated from the problems highlighted in the international technology transfer, which was dominated by multinational corporations in the 1960s and 1970s [25,26]. With universities and research institutions, such as laboratories, playing a more important role, there are more concerns about the technology transfer between universities and enterprises within a country [27][28][29][30]. Through these works, a large number of inter-or intra-regional technology transfer issues within a country charactering by patent transactions including licensing or transferring were widely revealed [22,[31][32][33][34].…”

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Regional Integration in the Inter-City Technology Transfer System of the Yangtze River Delta, China

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Recently, the Chinese government decided to support the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in a national strategic way. On this background, this paper investigates the regional integration in the technology transfer system of the YRD based on patent transfer from three levels: overall, technology supply chain, and technology sales chain. It also uses the modularity maximization method to detect the community structure of the inter-city patent transfer network in China. The results show that regional integration of the technology transfer system of the YRD at both overall level and technology supply chain level had not been realized up to 2015, but had been achieved at the technical sales chain level. Technology flow in the YRD was increasingly moving across the border, and the intra-region technology transfer network was increasingly unable to meet the needs of technological development of the cities in the YRD. This paper has several limitations concerning the representativeness of patent data, the manifestation of patent data in technological transfer and international comparison.

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Innovation Lodestar: The entrepreneurial university in a stellar knowledge firmament

Cited by 123 publications

References 17 publications

Realized absorptive capacity and entrepreneurial universities’ organizational change: the role of process innovation practices

Realized absorptive capacity and entrepreneurial universities’ organizational change: the role of process innovation practices

Transdisciplinarity: science for and with society in light of the university’s roles and functions

Regional Integration in the Inter-City Technology Transfer System of the Yangtze River Delta, China

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