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Entrepreneurial Universities

Exploring the Academic and Innovative Dimensions of Entrepreneurship in Higher Education

  • Examines the Entrepreneurial University and its impact on the students and entrepreneurial initiatives of universities
  • Provides tools, case examples and practices from universities around the world
  • Illustrates ways in which to adopt and encourage entrepreneurship in universities without disrupting teaching and research quality

Part of the book series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management (ITKM)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Activities Related to Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Academic Setting: A Literature Review

    • Ademar Schmitz, David Urbano, Maribel Guerrero, Gertrudes Aparecida Dandolini
    Pages 1-17
  3. The Influence of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intentions

    • João J. Ferreira, Cristina I. Fernandes, Vanessa Ratten
    Pages 19-34
  4. Assessing the Entrepreneurial Orientation of University Departments. A Comparative Study Between Italy and Spain

    • Angelo Riviezzo, Francisco Liñán, Maria Rosaria Napolitano
    Pages 35-46
  5. Entrepreneurship and University: How to Create Entrepreneurs from University Institutions

    • Alberto Vaquero-García, Francisco Jesús Ferreiro-Seoane, José Álvarez-García
    Pages 47-63
  6. The Influence of University Context on Entrepreneurial Intentions

    • Juan Carlos Díaz-Casero, Antonio Fernández-Portillo, Mari-Cruz Sánchez-Escobedo, Ricardo Hernández-Mogollón
    Pages 65-81
  7. Universities in the Context of the Knowledge-Based Society According to Systemism: Evidences from a Brazilian Community University

    • Ademar Schmitz, David Urbano, Gertrudes Aparecida Dandolini, João Artur de Souza
    Pages 83-104
  8. Entrepreneurial University: Educational Innovation and Technology Transfer

    • María Saiz-Santos, Andrés Araujo-De la Mata, Jon Hoyos-Iruarrizaga
    Pages 105-121
  9. A Quest for the Research Centres About Entrepreneurship in Spanish Universities

    • Alicia Blanco-González, Camilo Prado-Roman, Juan-Gabriel Martínez-Navalón
    Pages 123-133
  10. Title Variables that Determine the Characteristics of University Spin-Off Support Programs

    • José María Beraza-Garmendia, Arturo Rodríguez-Castellanos
    Pages 135-150
  11. Entrepreneurial Initiatives in Colombian Universities: The Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Business Center of Sergio Arboleda University

    • Antonio Alonso-Gonzalez, Diego Plata-Rugeles, Marta Peris-Ortiz, Carlos Rueda-Armengot
    Pages 151-163
  12. Transversal Competences Acquisition by Assigning Collaborative Work Group Roles

    • Eugenia Babiloni, Ester Guijarro, Lourdes Canós-Darós, Cristina Santandreu-Mascarell
    Pages 179-196
  13. Assessment of Autonomous Learning Skill Through Multi-criteria Analysis for Online ADE Students in Moodle

    • Mónica de Castro, Concepción de la Fuente-Cabrero, Ma del Pilar Laguna Sánchez
    Pages 197-213
  14. Development Motivation of Student Abilities and Skills Through a Business Activity

    • Raúl Gómez Martínez, Alberto Prado Román, Paola Plaza Casado
    Pages 215-228
  15. A Study on Entrepreneurship at the University of Valencia

    • Elisabeth Bustos-Contell, Gregorio Labatut-Serer, Salvador Climent-Serrano
    Pages 229-237
  16. Entrepreneurship at the Universitat Politècnica de València

    • Carlos Rueda-Armengot, Sofía Estelles-Miguel, Marta Elena Palmer Gato, José Miguel Albarracín Guillem, Jose M. Merigó Lindahl
    Pages 239-248
  17. CETYS University: Teaching in a Proactive and Entrepreneurial University

    • Marta Peris-Ortiz, Monica Acosta-Alvarado, Mariella C. Remund
    Pages 249-257
  18. Intrapreneuring Within a Higher Education Institution: Introducing Virtual Business Internships

    • Gisela Sanahuja Vélez, Gabriela Ribes Giner, Ismael Moya Clemente
    Pages 259-266
  19. Entrepreneurship by Students in Tourism Degree Program. A Cross-Cultural Analysis

    • María de la Cruz del Río-Rama, José Álvarez-García, Carlos Rueda-Armengot, Marta Peris-Ortiz
    Pages 267-286

About this book

This book analyses the importance of the entrepreneurial university, specifically in relation to the creation of entrepreneurial ideas and attitudes in students and entrepreneurial initiatives in academic institutions. The aim of the editors and contributing authors is to provide the reader with a set of experiences illustrating the advantages of communicating and encouraging entrepreneurship among students, thereby highlighting the “third mission” of the university: the need to adopt entrepreneurial strategy without disrupting the quality of teaching and research. 

Featuring initiatives from institutions around the world, the authors argue that the increasing importance of knowledge in the technical and social dimensions of today’s world provides greater relevance to the entrepreneurial university. In this context, universities transcend their traditional focus on teaching and basic research to carry out technology transfers, marketing ideas, and patent registrations, and incorporate spin-off companies that contribute to industrial innovations, economic growth, and job creation. In the teaching dimension, the entrepreneurial university represents a focus on programs which train students in the applications and most advanced practices in knowledge-driven fields. 

The book addresses such questions as:

  • Can marketing ideas deteriorate the quality of research in the long term?
  • What importance does the cultural framework have for an entrepreneurial education?
  • What circumstances and programs facilitate spin-offs in universities
  • What are the key features of entrepreneurial universities?  

In reference to entrepreneurship education in its broadest sense, then, it corresponds to the framework of ideas and general features on which entrepreneurship is founded: in-depth knowledge of the projects or ventures which they wish to carry out, capacity to perceive the relevant characteristics of the environment, and the leadership and goal setting skills to achieve success.





Reviews

“This book explores the institutional aspects of entrepreneurship activities to establish entrepreneurial universities. … The book as a whole makes a significant contribution to the important field of entrepreneurial universities and its relation to the entrepreneurship; furthermore, the book indicates that entrepreneurial universities help to achieve the institutional mission of innovation and technology transfer, and to incentive entrepreneurial research and the subsequent application to entrepreneurship.” (Yinghua Ye, Rui Hu, Yifan Wang and Peng Bin, Higher Education, Vol. 76, 2018)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Business Administration, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Marta Peris-Ortiz, Carlos Rueda-Armengot

  • School of Business Administration, University of San Diego, San Diego, USA

    Jaime Alonso Gómez

  • Department of Management Control and Information Systems, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

    José M. Merigó-Lindahl

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