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Global recessions and structural economic shifts are motivating government and business leaders worldwide to increasingly look to "their" universities to stimulate regional development and to contribute to national competiveness. The challenge is clear and the question is pressing: How will universities respond?
This book presents in-depth case narratives of ten universities from Norway, Finland, Sweden, UK, and the U.S. that have overcome significant challenges to develop programs and activities to commercialize scientific research, launch entrepreneurial degree programs, establish industry partnerships, and build entrepreneurial cultures and ecosystems. The universities are quite diverse: large and small; teaching and research focused; internationally recognized and relatively new; located in major cities and in emerging regions. Each case narrative describes challenges overcome, actions taken, and resulting accomplishments.
This volume will be of interest to policymakers and university administrators as well as researchers and students interested in how different programs and activities can promote university entrepreneurship while contributing to economic growth in developed and developing economies.
List of contents
Editors' Introduction 1: The Entrepreneurial University: Context and Institutional change (Lene Foss and David V. Gibson) 2. New York University: Nurturing entrepreneurship in New York City (Bala Mulloth and Jill R. Kickul) 3. Creating and Sustaining High-Technology Development in Austin Texas (David V. Gibson and John S. Butler) 4. High Technology Entrepreneurship in a University Town: The Cambridge story (Robert Hodgson) 5. Kingston University London: Using entrepreneurship programmes to attract talent and to enhance educational impact (Christina Lea Butler Martha Mador) 6. Chalmers: Institutionalizing the entrepreneurial? (Mats Lundqvist) 7. The Evolution of Lund University's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem from 1980 to 2012 (Tomas Karlsson, Caroline Wigren-Kristofferson, and Hans Landström) 8. Entrepreneurial Aalto: Where science and art meet technology and business (Steffen Farny and Paula Kyrö) 9. Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences, Finland: In search of university-wide entrepreneurial action (Ari Lindeman) 10. UiT, The Arctic University of Norway: Challenges at the Arctic crossroads (Elin Oftedal and Lene Foss) 11. Stavanger: From petroleum focus to diversified competence through crisis and consensus (Elin Oftedal and Tatiana Iakovleva) 12: The Entrepreneurial University: Case analysis and Implications (Lene Foss and David V. Gibson)
About the author
Lene Foss is a professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Tromsø (UiT) in Norway.
David V. Gibson is Associate Director and the Nadya Kozmetsky Scott Centennial Fellow, IC² (Innovation, Creativity, Capital) Institute, The University of Texas at Austin.
