scholarly journals Contributions from entrepreneurial universities to the regional innovation ecosystem of Boston

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-268
Author(s):  
Simone Boruck Klein ◽  
Maria Celeste Lobos Reis De Vasconcelos ◽  
Reginaldo De Jesus Carvalho Lima ◽  
Simone Cristina Dufloth
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Universities ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem

Entrepreneurial Universities and Regional Innovation

2020 ◽  
pp. 260-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Fonseca ◽  
Maria Salomaa
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Entrepreneurial Universities ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Regional Administration ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Strategy Process ◽  
Smart Specialisation ◽  
The University

Universities are expected to play a leading role in the smart specialisation strategy process, However, a gap between discourse and practice is marking the RIS3-related regional development programmes, which can be extended to the involvement of universities in the process. A mismatch can be speculated between the expectations towards universities' roles in RIS3 implementation and actual practice, and its repercussions on a regional innovation ecosystem. This chapter addresses the extent to which the role played by universities in a region's innovation and entrepreneurial practice aligns with the smart specialisation strategic outline. As an in-depth case-study of the University of Aveiro (Portugal), it draws on both quantitative and qualitative data, with an analysis of RIS3 approved projects in the Portuguese NUTS II Centro region, and interviews with key actors within the university and the regional administration. Through this, it weighs the contribution of entrepreneurial universities to the RIS3 goals, drawing lessons for public policy and discussing the future of RIS3.

scholarly journals Research and Business Cooperation: International Practice and Siberian Experience

2019 ◽  
pp. 643-659
Author(s):  
Nataliya Kravchenko ◽  
Almira Yusupova ◽  
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Level Of Confidence ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Regional Economy Development ◽  
Development Of Partnership

The paper discusses possibilities and directions for bridging the gaps between academic research and business by reducing barriers and strengthening incentives for the development of partnership interactions between participants of the regional innovation ecosystem. Many researchers from developed and developing countries focus on the problems of interaction between universities and companies in order to find ways to increase academic research effectiveness and make the results relevant to the business sector’s real demand. Development of partnership relations is known to be a factor which accelerates creation and dissemination of innovations. Improvement of such relationship favours academic researchers’ possibilities, educational programs adjustment, and regional economy development. Basing on international experience review, the paper determines the main tendencies and perspectives of research – business cooperation as well as key directions of partnership cooperation support. The empirical part of the paper deals with the results of original pilot survey which uses data from a number of research, educational organizations and high tech companies from Novosibirsk region. The aim of the survey was to analyze success factors and main obstacles for sustainable research – business cooperation. Qualitative methods including case studies, interviews, and surveys were used within the research. It is shown that, although all representatives of science and business recognize the need to develop partnership relationships, differences in motivations and conflicting goals of participants still remain. Besides well known barriers (lack of financial and other resources, personnel etc.) some other factors turned to be important. Low level of confidence and negative cooperation experience impede cooperation development. Personal issues and previous successful experience help to develop and improve partnerships. Such cases could be found. State support (especially at the regional level) is quite necessary; it is not limited to financial instruments. Support of communications which helps to increase the level of confidence and to decrease “attrition costs” of cooperation is also of great importance

Innovation Dynamics Through the Encouragement of Knowledge Spin-Off From Touristic Destinations

2022 ◽  
pp. 170-190
Author(s):  
Sofia Vairinho
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
University Research ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regional Cluster ◽  
Innovation Dynamics ◽  
Innovation Clusters ◽  
Innovation Processes

The present approach aims to explore the innovation dynamic that may lead to knowledge opportunities in a specific regional cluster characterized by a strong touristic positioning. The new technology-based companies, namely the spin-out created from university research, represent a possible and reliable approach to the economy stimulation. This said, it is mandatory to explore the topics that will allow a reflection on the networks associated with innovation processes, developed from the relations between the public universe (including universities and research centers), and the new technology or humanistic based companies. This chapter intends to be a contribution to the discussion of innovation clusters and sets the preliminary issues to discuss and implement an innovation ecosystem. This chapter explores and reflects the importance of regional innovation clusters dynamics, setting and describing the steps and specific strategical procedures in order to implement an innovation ecosystem, using as example a specific touristic territory.

StartX and the ‘Paradox of Success’: Filling the gap in Stanford’s entrepreneurial culture

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Etzkowitz
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Academic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Support Structures ◽  
Entrepreneurial Universities ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
University Development ◽  
Entrepreneurial Culture

Stanford University’s legendary success in technology transfer, based upon a relatively small group of serial faculty entrepreneurs, masked unrealized potential residing in the underutilized inventions of less entrepreneurially experienced faculty and students. An optimum academic entrepreneurship and technology-transfer regime matches various levels of inventor interest and involvement with appropriate organizational competence and support. The ‘Paradox of Success’ is that great organizational success in licensing, or other activities, may reduce the motivation to further advancement, in the Stanford case, introducing support structures for research commercialization that are commonplace in aspiring entrepreneurial universities. Stanford had largely bought into an ideology of a self-organizing innovation ecosystem in Silicon Valley that implied lack of need for explicit entrepreneurial support structures on campus, such as incubator facilities. This belief inhibited policy intervention until a student-organized accelerator project actualizing underutilized entrepreneurial capacity demonstrated that a step change in promoting entrepreneurship at Stanford was necessary and feasible. Case studies based on archival and interview data show the development of Stanford’s entrepreneurial academic culture and university development strategy.

scholarly journals Creating an innovation ecosystem in the regions of the Russian Federation (on the example of the Volgograd region)

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 484-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. V. Ledeneva ◽  
T. A. Plaksunova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Innovation Infrastructure ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Volgograd Region ◽  
Region Data ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Start Ups

The authors gave an overview of the innovation ecosystem formation theme development, built a logical model of the innovation infrastructure, defined the roles of the main actors. To create an innovation ecosystem in the Volgograd region, it is necessary to study the foreign experience and experience of the regions of the Russian Federation and adapt it to the socio-economic conditions of the Volgograd region. In Russia, innovation ecosystems at the regional level are only being formed. The most successful developments in innovation infrastructure building are found in the universities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Perm, Samara, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don. The authors based on the analysis of the dynamics of statistical indicators for the development of innovative entrepreneurship in the Volgograd region, data ratings characterizing the innovation processes in the regions of the Russian Federation, as well as analyzing the existing infrastructure for supporting SMEs and innovative entrepreneurship, justified the need to create an innovative ecosystem in the Volgograd region. The authors have identified problems that reduce the efficiency of the infrastructure for supporting SMEs and innovative entrepreneurship, including weak interaction between knowledge generators and representatives of the business environment who are interested in their commercialization; insufficient development of social links between scientific institutions and innovative enterprises, insufficient coordination of the elements of regional innovation systems. The existing infrastructure is not built into the process of moving an idea from its generation to entering the market and does not contribute to the acceleration of innovative start-ups. The authors concluded that it is necessary to integrate an integrator in the innovative infrastructure, which performs the functions of informing and coordinating stakeholders, to intensify the flow of innovative projects by popularizing innovative activities; maintain a database of innovative projects, evaluate them, track successful projects and accelerate them.

The Potentialities of Local Innovation Ecosystems to Tackle Wicked Problems: The Case of Aging

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Pinto Albuquerque ◽  
Helena Reis Amaro da Luz
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Quadruple Helix ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Multidimensional Problem

The authors present, in the article, a critical approach about the characteristics and dimensions of wicked problems and discuss the application of this theoretical framework to the comprehension and action in a contemporary major issue: active and healthy aging. Under this conception, active and healthy aging promotion is conceived as a complex, uncertain and multidimensional problem requiring innovative forms of thought and intervention, namely in local or regional contexts. Innovative local ecosystems, engaging multiple stakeholders in a quadruple helix perspective, are presented as an adequate way to intervene in wicked problems’ response and particularly on the aging issues. At the end of the article, the authors present an example of a regional innovation ecosystem, in Portugal, associated with a global and synergic intervention in the domain of active and healthy aging and reflect on the critical elements of model’s replication.

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