TY - JOUR
T1 - Entrepreneurial universities
T2 - socioeconomic impacts of academic entrepreneurship in a European eegion
AU - Urbano, David
AU - Guerrero, Maribel
PY - 2013/2/1
Y1 - 2013/2/1
N2 - In the knowledge economy, academic entrepreneurship occurs at the boundaries of different scientific and professional backgrounds, creating a need for support mechanisms to transcend those limits. The entrepreneurial university is seen as an important catalyst for regional economic and social development, particularly because it generates and exploits knowledge as entrepreneurial opportunities. However, evidence about this phenomenon is fragmented and disorganized. By adopting institutional economics, resource-based view, and endogenous growth approaches, this study provides a better understanding of the socioeconomic impacts of the entrepreneurial university. Using the case study methodology, the study presents the experience of entrepreneurial universities in a European Region (Catalonia, Spain). It describes some practical implications that could stimulate the entrepreneurial activity of universities and thus foster their contribution to the development of the modern knowledge economy.
AB - In the knowledge economy, academic entrepreneurship occurs at the boundaries of different scientific and professional backgrounds, creating a need for support mechanisms to transcend those limits. The entrepreneurial university is seen as an important catalyst for regional economic and social development, particularly because it generates and exploits knowledge as entrepreneurial opportunities. However, evidence about this phenomenon is fragmented and disorganized. By adopting institutional economics, resource-based view, and endogenous growth approaches, this study provides a better understanding of the socioeconomic impacts of the entrepreneurial university. Using the case study methodology, the study presents the experience of entrepreneurial universities in a European Region (Catalonia, Spain). It describes some practical implications that could stimulate the entrepreneurial activity of universities and thus foster their contribution to the development of the modern knowledge economy.
KW - entrepreneurship
KW - small business
KW - university role in economic development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873433965&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0891242412471973
DO - 10.1177/0891242412471973
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84873433965
VL - 27
SP - 40
EP - 55
JO - Gender and Society
JF - Gender and Society
SN - 0891-2432
IS - 1
ER -