scholarly journals Academic Inventions outside the University: A Result of Industry Sponsorship or Entrepreneurial Activities?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Industry Sponsorship ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Inventions

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial intention: An analysis of the role of Student-Led Entrepreneurial Organizations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuliano Sansone ◽  
Elisa Ughetto ◽  
Paolo Landoni
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Student Entrepreneurship ◽  
Entrepreneurial Organizations ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

AbstractAlthough a great deal of attention has been paid to entrepreneurship education, only a few studies have analysed the impact of extra-curricular entrepreneurial activities on students’ entrepreneurial intention. The aim of this study is to fill this gap by exploring the role played by Student-Led Entrepreneurial Organizations (SLEOs) in shaping the entrepreneurial intention of their members. The analysis is based on a survey that was conducted in 2016 by one of the largest SLEOs in the world: the Junior Enterprises Europe (JEE). The main result of the empirical analysis is that the more time students spent on JEE and the higher the number of events students attended, the greater their entrepreneurial intention was. It has been found that other important drivers also increase students’ entrepreneurial intention, that is, the Science and Technology field of study and the knowledge of more than two foreign languages. These results confirm that SLEOs are able to foster students’ entrepreneurial intention. The findings provide several theoretical, practical and public policy implications. SLEOs are encouraged to enhance their visibility and lobbying potential in order to be recognized more as drivers of student entrepreneurship. In addition, it is advisable for universities and policy makers to support SLEOs by fostering their interactions with other actors operating in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, who promote entrepreneurship and technology transfer activities. Lastly, this paper advises policy makers to assist SLEOs’ activities inside and outside the university context.

The University as Entrepreneur

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-146
Author(s):  
John E. Bagalay
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Biotechnology Company ◽  
Venture Capital Fund ◽  
Boston University ◽  
Public Offering ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The University

Boston University has a successful record of investing in high-technology companies. These investments are carried out through the university's wholly owned venture capital fund. One of Boston University's most important investments has been in Seragen, Inc, a biotechnology company. Seragen's activities and its recent public offering of shares are described. Finally, the article sets Boston University's entrepreneurial activities in the context of the debate about the morality of universities commercializing their research.

scholarly journals Análise dos constructos comportamentais do empreendedorismo sustentável de estudantes universitários brasileiros

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 718
Author(s):  
Luis Eduardo Brandão Paiva ◽  
Tereza Cristina Batista de Lima ◽  
Silvia Maria Dias Pedro Rebouças ◽  
Rômulo Alves Soares
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Sustainable Entrepreneurship ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intent ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
Behavioral Constructs

Research on entrepreneurial intention stands out in the academic context and addresses several determinants related to the behavioral nature influencing entrepreneurship. Consequently, the following behavioral constructs were used for sustainable entrepreneurship: attitude towards self-employment; orientation towards sustainability; propensity to innovate; barriers and facilities for entrepreneurial activities; and entrepreneurs in the immediate family. This study aimed to analyze the influence of the behavioral constructs of sustainable entrepreneurship on the entrepreneurial intentions of university students. Based on a sample of 318 students enrolled on an administration course at the Federal University of Ceará, statistical techniques of data analysis were applied, namely factorial analysis, inferential statistics (t-test and Mann-Whitney test), logistic regression and Classification and Regression Trees (CART). Three hypotheses were constructed in this study based on the literature: (i) there is a positive influence between the orientation towards the sustainability of university students and their entrepreneurial intention, (ii) there is a positive influence between the propensity to innovate and the entrepreneurial intention of the university students, and (iii) having entrepreneurs in the immediate family contributes positively to the entrepreneurial intent of university students. It was noted that, in general, students most likely to have entrepreneurial intent are those most concerned with environmental issues, that are stimulating and original, and have immediate relatives that are entrepreneurs.

Support for Entrepreneurship at the University of Twente

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 367-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.C. van der Sijde ◽  
J.A. van Alsté
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Student Entrepreneurship ◽  
Limited Company ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The University

The authors describe the University of Twente (UT) as an innovative and entrepreneurial university. In demonstration of this approach, they discuss the ways in which the University participates in the encouragement of individual and institutional entrepreneurial activity and disseminates expert knowledge on issues relating to entrepreneurship. Graduates as well as faculty can benefit from UT schemes for entrepreneurs, and the establishment of a Student Entrepreneurship Centre is underway. The paper concludes with two case studies of projects which have followed the progression from a research unit or activity at UT into a limited company. The authors argue that higher education institutions must adopt active policies to enable both students and staff to initiate entrepreneurial activities.

Entrepreneurial Capabilities and Organizational Transformation

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiago Renault ◽  
José Manoel Carvalho de Mello
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Transformation ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Academic Unit ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The University

The Brazilian government has been fostering innovation through policies aimed at transferring technology from publicly funded science and technology organizations to the market. One response to this initiative has been an attempt by some universities to transform themselves into entrepreneurial institutions. In this paper the authors use a longitudinal case study to analyse the organizational transformation at the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro to become entrepreneurial. The analysis focuses on the entrepreneurial capabilities developed by this academic unit. It was found that the main capabilities developed were managing the university interface with outside parties; integrating public policy initiatives; supporting entrepreneurial activities; technology transfer; and managing shared resources. These five capabilities are interrelated and their development has occurred in tandem with the organizational transformation of the university.

scholarly journals Readiness of Technical University Students to Entrepreneurship Activity

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 83-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Minin ◽  
E. V. Politsinskaya ◽  
V. G. Lizunkov
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Technological Entrepreneurship ◽  
Entrepreneurial Competencies ◽  
Business Structures ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The University

The article raises the problem of the formation of entrepreneurial competencies in response to the current situation in the country’s economy, which arose due to the lack of specialists capable of organizing innovation and technology business in the Territories of advanced socio-economic development (TOSED).The authors have analyzed the professional preferences of graduates of the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (Russia), the University of Zagreb (Croatia), and the University of Lyon (France) and identified the reasons why graduates do not create their own business. In order to determine the necessary cluster of entrepreneurial competencies of university graduates with basic technical education, a survey involving the representatives of Russian and foreign companies working in Russia, including TOSED residents, was conducted. As a result, the authors have received a list of key entrepreneurial competencies necessary for entrepreneurial activities and the formation of graduate competence in the field of management and business.The authors believe that for the formation of entrepreneurial competence, certain conditions must be created in the educational process for preparing a student for entrepreneurial activities, in particular a number of disciplines (entrepreneurship, technological entrepreneurship, project management, business planning) should be included in the curricula; interactive design training methods aimed to develop graduate’s readiness to create their own business should be applied. It is also necessary to provide an the interaction between universities and business structures, which are mostly the residents of TOSED.

scholarly journals Key Elements and Their Roles in Entrepreneurship Education Ecosystem: Comparative Review and Suggestions for Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10648
Author(s):  
Haibin Liu ◽  
Sadan Kulturel-Konak ◽  
Abdullah Konak
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Comparative Review ◽  
The Us ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Growth Equilibrium ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The University

This paper examines two core issues of the university-based entrepreneurship education ecosystem by explicating the key elements of the ecosystem and their roles, and the development process and sustainable construction strategy of the ecosystem. Thirty stakeholders of ecosystems from the US universities were interviewed, and the transcripts of these interviews were coded through a three-phase process, including open, axial, selective coding, and were analyzed based on the grounded theory. It was found that (i) the key elements of the university-based entrepreneurship education ecosystem consist of six units (colleges and universities, learners, educators, government, industry, and community) acting as initiators and seven factors (entrepreneurship curriculum, entrepreneurial activities and practices, organizational structure, resources, leadership vision, core faculty, and operating mechanism) acting as the intermediaries; (ii) These key elements constitute three independent functional subsystems, namely, teaching and innovation, support, and operation that are interconnected by the universities; (iii) The development process of a university-based entrepreneurship education ecosystem involves seven steps as preparation, germination, growth, equilibrium, stagnation, recession, and collapse; (iv) For sustainability, suggestions on a solid foundation, continuous investment, and constant monitoring are provided to university administrators and policymakers to advance higher education’s contribution to social and economic development.

scholarly journals Effect of the University in the Entrepreneurial Intention of Female Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Bazan ◽  
Aparajita Datta ◽  
Hannah Gaultois ◽  
Arifusalam Shaikh ◽  
Katie Gillespie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Extrinsic Factors ◽  
Entrepreneurship Training ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The University

Abstract Many researchers have studied gender differences in the entrepreneurial intention of students by analyzing the influence of several intrinsic and extrinsic factors on the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention. Fewer researchers have analyzed the influence of the university’s environment and support system on the precursors of the entrepreneurial intention of students in general and of female students in particular. This study aims to fill that gap by analyzing the influence of the university’s environment and support system on the precursors of entrepreneurial intention of female students at a university in Atlantic Canada. Findings of this study confirm that two precursors of entrepreneurial intention—i.e., attitude toward behavior and perceived behavioral control—mediate the effects of the university’s environment and support system on the entrepreneurial intention of female students. They also confirm that the university’s environment and support system comprises three distinct but interrelated dimensions, namely entrepreneurship training, start-up support, and entrepreneurial milieu. Results of this study also suggest that the university’s environment and support system has a positive relation with the perceived behavioral control of female students. However, findings of this study also suggest that the university’s environment and support system has a positive but negligible influence on the attitude toward the behavior of the same students. The outcomes of this study will help the university assess the efficacy of its innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives in promoting entrepreneurial activities. By understanding its entrepreneurial efficacy, the institution will be better equipped to raise the perceptions of venture feasibility and desirability, thus increasing students’ perceptions of opportunity.

The influence of creativity on the entrepreneurial intention of university female graduates: An SEM approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 095042222110612
Author(s):  
Mohamad Osmani ◽  
Ramzi El-Haddadeh ◽  
Nitham M Hindi ◽  
Vishanth Weerakkody
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Business Programs ◽  
Business Graduates ◽  
Career Option ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The University

Entrepreneurial activities have been vital to economic growth as a feasible career option for many university graduates. Nonetheless, it has been recognised that the lowest intentions to undertake entrepreneurial activity are among female graduates. While entrepreneurship is claimed to be a reflection of creative activity from which individuals generate value, graduates’ creativity can be a crucial aspect of entrepreneurship, with innovative concepts, products and services. This study examines the role of creativity skills in the entrepreneurial intentions of female university students attending business programs. Built on the Theory of Planned Behaviour, the survey results collected from 303 female business graduates identified the positive influence of creativity on entrepreneurial intentions. Recognising the need to embed creative skills and activities in the university curriculum is fundamental to encouraging entrepreneurial aspirations among female graduates.

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