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Entrepreneurial Universities

Creating Institutional Innovation in Times of Turbulence

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Fills a gap in the literature by focusing on the role of the university in knowledge production and entrepreneurship

  • Provides a mix of theoretical research, implications for practice and suggestions for government policy

  • Offers detailed case studies from around the world, notably Africa and Europe

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Macro Level: Institutional Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
  3. Meso Level: Dynamics of Interactions Between Knowledge Incubators and Knowledge Entrepreneurs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
  4. Micro Level: Manifestation of the Entrepreneurial University—Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
    2. Revisiting the New Entrepreneurial University in Times of Uncertainty

      • Lee Gray, Simon Adderley, Ross Jordan
      Pages 143-167
    3. Entrepreneurial Intentions Amongst African Students: A Case Study of the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana

      • Nnamdi O. Madichie, Masud Ibrahim, Diyawu Rahman Adam, Yazidu Ustarz
      Pages 169-190
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 191-200

About this book

This book explores the idea of the ‘Entrepreneurial University’ within the institutional environment that focuses on the production, dissemination, and exploitation of knowledge. Keeping its gaze firmly on the constitutive elements of the knowledge-based institutional environment – the key actors and their interactions – the book makes important theoretical and empirical contributions to the burgeoning literature on academic entrepreneurship.

The contributing chapters in the book draw insights from a range of disciplines including history, institutional and evolutionary economics, strategic management, entrepreneurship, and innovation studies to explore how institutions can create new business opportunities in turbulent times. This interdisciplinary approach has generated a rich and diverse set of insights on the idea of Entrepreneurial Universities for students, researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in innovation and technology studies, entrepreneurship, and knowledge management.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

    Sola Adesola, Surja Datta

About the editors

Sola Adesola is Senior Lecturer in International Organizations and Law at the Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research interests span entrepreneurship, energy policy, and university-industry interactions. She is a co-editor of Energy in Africa: Policy, Management and Sustainability (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development.

Surja Datta is Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation at the Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford Brookes University, UK. Surja’s research interests include business history, creativity and innovation. He is the author of A History of the Indian University: Emerging from the Shadows of the Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Entrepreneurial Universities

  • Book Subtitle: Creating Institutional Innovation in Times of Turbulence

  • Editors: Sola Adesola, Surja Datta

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48013-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48012-7Published: 13 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48015-8Published: 14 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48013-4Published: 12 September 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 200

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Entrepreneurship, Industries, Management, Business and Management, general, Higher Education, International Business

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