Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Academia

This book aims to contribute to the understanding and evaluation of the processes through which innovative knowledge is created and translated to entrepreneurial technological advantage in higher education institutions.

The chapters included in this edited volume discuss new trends related to the impact of policies on innovation and entrepreneurial activity in universities, by providing a variety of insights from both an individual and an institutional perspective and with reference to a number of different contexts and units of analysis. The integration of both qualitative and quantitative approaches, as well as the multidisciplinary approach that characterizes this volume makes it possible to provide an in-depth understanding of today?s dynamics.

The volume will be of relevance to scholars, students and researchers interested in Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Economics and Technology Management.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Industry & Innovation.

1. Innovation, entrepreneurship and the academic context 2. The impact of the abolishment of the professor’s privilege on European university-owned patents 3. A burden of knowledge creation in academic research: evidence from publication data 4. How the university ecosystem shapes the innovation capacities of undergraduate students – evidence from Germany 5. Transformative change in higher education: entrepreneurial universities and high-technology entrepreneurship 6. Looking inside the determinants and the effects of entrepreneurial innovation projects in an emerging economy

Erik E. Lehmann is Full Professor and holding the Chair of Management and Organization at the University of Augsburg, and Director of the CisAlpino Institute of Comparative Studies in Europe (CCSE) at the University of Augsburg, Germany.

Michele Meoli is Associate Professor of Corporate Finance at the Department of Economics and Technology Management at the University of Bergamo, and Deputy Director of the CisAlpino Institute for Comparative Studies in Europe (CCSE) at the University of Bergamo, Italy.

Stefano Paleari is Full Professor of Finance and Public Management at the Department of Economics and Technology Management at the University of Bergamo. He is President of the CISAlpino Institute for Comparative Studies in Europe (CCSE) at the University of Bergamo, Italy.