The development of an entrepreneurial university |
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Authors: | Maribel Guerrero David Urbano |
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Institution: | (1) Business Economics Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain |
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Abstract: | An entrepreneurial society refers to places where knowledge-based entrepreneurship has emerged as a driving force for economic
growth, employment creation and competitiveness. In this context, entrepreneurial universities play an important role as both
knowledge-producer and a disseminating institution. In the literature, several studies contributed with relevant findings.
Most of these studies reveal a tendency to use case studies to explain this phenomenon justified by the embryonic nature of
the topic field, and with the lack of a robust theoretical framework to understand it. No empirical study, however, has highlighted
the interrelations among environmental and internal factors that conditioned the development of entrepreneurial universities
with the teaching, research and entrepreneurial missions that they need to achieve. This paper aims to contribute to a better
understanding of these interrelations identifying the most critical factors that conditioned these missions and to this end
brings a proposal model to measure this phenomenon empirically in the light of the Institutional Economics and the Resource-Based
View. The methodology adopted is integrated by the Spanish Entrepreneurial University Scoreboard to identify this phenomenon
and Structural Equation Modeling to analyze the relationships among independent and dependent variables that integrate the
proposal model of entrepreneurial university. This research could cover invaluable strategies to bring further benefits to
society (in terms of the creation of new business and employment) and, in particular, to educational institutions. |
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