•Joint university-industry laboratories are a typical example of high-quality engagement between academia and industry.•Joint university-industry laboratories are understood as long term joint ...undertakings shared by universities and industry targeted at generating value for all parties involved through various channels. Given the different missions of universities and industry, joint laboratories inherit special challenges for management.•Joint university-industry labs contribute to economic development and deliver substantial impacts from a societal perspective.•Management of such hybrid organizational structures presents myriad managerial challenges.
In this article we pay attention to the different analytical layers that compose the managerial context of university-industry relationships – a cornerstone of entrepreneurial universities. Specifically, we address the dynamics of joint university-industry laboratories, a typical example of high-quality engagement between academia and industry. Joint university-industry laboratories are understood as long term joint undertakings shared by universities and industry targeted at generating value for all parties involved through various channels. Given the different missions of universities and industry, joint laboratories inherit special challenges for management. Our exploration therefore outlines four complementary dimensions of interest in this context: the macro environment, university-level institutional challenges, strategic context and, lastly, we deal with individual-level aspects when analyzing identity issues involved in the dynamics of joint university-industry labs. A research agenda is derived from these explorations.
Today, it has become fruitless, reducing the role of the university to its sole mission of education. Undoubtedly, a university is a source of knowledge that acts as an incubator for creativity and ...innovation; however, more light should be shed on how universities help create a vibrant economy by providing employment opportunities, promoting highquality research, and stimulating investment. In this work, we focus on displaying a new adaptable
trinity
formula that places the university, with all its missions, in the heart of an attractive territory. It is in this vein that we study the importance of well-choosing the remaining territorial components to be part of the trivium formula. The main aim of the current premise is to highlight the significance of adjusting territorial innovation models, such as business ecosystems of innovation and triple helix models of innovation, in accordance with the weight of keystone components of territory and how they participate in its attractiveness, all of which are orchestrated by universities. The importance of this topic lies in recognizing the potential of universities as accelerators for territorial advancement, including their role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, by acknowledging their many distinct contributions to fostering innovation and protecting the environment. Adopting the trivium formula means providing a blueprint that encourages fortifying links within a territory’s components, thus enhancing relations between universities and other pieces of the territorial development puzzle we built this work upon as a method to understand innovative territories, from green innovation to industrial intelligence.
The present article aims at analyzing the dynamics of innovation that emerges and develops in some iconic collaborative spaces that are epicenters of a technological or artistic revolution. The study ...focuses on three cases (the Homebrew Computer Club, the TransMedTech institute, and the elBulli restaurant). The results highlight some important common traits between these collaborative spaces, namely: The dynamics of innovation in these spaces is orchestrated by bottom-up initiatives carried out by informal groups of passionate individuals (called the “commoners” in the contribution) who articulate a series of “innovation commons” to develop their collaborative innovative project. Based on our observations, the dynamics of innovation in the collaborative spaces results from the following sequence of
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. Each of these commons corresponds to a collective action governance mechanism over a specific common pool resource which is a key determinant of the innovative project.
Abstract
Universities play a unique role in ecosystems of innovation. They interact with the other agents of the Triple Helix model, developing their functions in relation to each other and together ...with industry and government. Grounded in key conceptual frameworks-Triple Helix, Regional Innovation Systems and Entrepreneurial University-we analyze how the leading universities in Silicon Valley (UC Berkeley, Stanford and UC San Francisco) have evolved, adapting to new demands and, in turn, shaping the evolution of Silicon Valley. To do so we use quantitative and qualitative data and examine the changes occurring between 2007 and 2018. A close examination of the data from this period reveals an increased attention to entrepreneurship education and an intensified activity of technology transfer offices. Equally relevant are the increased interactions between universities and investors (business angels, Venture Capital funds and corporate investors), and the improvement of specific infrastructures to incubate and accelerate business ideas.
The concept of ecosystem plays a central role in the recent debates on the unfolding of a new regime of innovation. In this paper, we contribute to these debates by clarifying the distinction between ...the emerging concept of 'ecosystem of innovation' from the established concept of 'business ecosystems.' Re-interpreting the case of the historical developments of the video game cluster of Montreal, we argue that the dynamics of knowledge creation and innovation in 'ecosystems of innovation' imply to adopt a wider scope and address knowledge flows between a diverse set of business ecosystems and between a business ecosystem and less formalised spaces dedicated to knowledge creation and exploration. We conclude suggesting the complementarity of 'ecosystems of innovation' with 'business ecosystems' and their generativity fuelled by creative tensions between formal and informal loci of knowledge creation, illustrated by diverse talent trajectories.
Introduction. Modern development of advanced countries of world is determined by macroeconomic indicators of material and financial welfare, as well as strategic indicators – volumes and types of ...innovations. Impact of innovation policy on economic growth is absolute. Development of human potential, as main factor of innovation, depends on favourable innovation ecosystem for training, obtaining a profession, factor realization on labour market and self-realization, increasing productivity of factors of production, structural redistribution in most competitive industries. Purpose. Determination of the criteria for the development of the ecosystem of innovation in education implies substantiation of its content, role, best practices and regional implementation possibilities. Results. International experience of institutionalization and interaction practices of the ecosystem of innovation innovators has been analyzed (technology transfer departments, commercialization centres’, competencies, research and advice, etc.), its specifics and achievements at the national and regional levels are considered, attention is focused on mandatory parameters its construction. Modern approaches are considered in organization of the system of education and teaching methods, effective projects of interaction between representatives of academic communities, business structures and state, mandatory objects of educational infrastructure are defined. Institutionalization of educational ecosystem and transition to modern methods of interaction of its participants is characterized by an extensive functional and institutional system of innovations. It corresponds to reality task of modern labour market, when designer approach, ability to generate new ideas and turn them into business becomes dominant element in education and self-actualization of worker. Therefore, modern methods and approaches to organization of innovation training, its institutional support, integration of education and business are necessary. Conclusions. It is necessary to create a database of information support and professional direction of the population, to develop a system of accounting, reporting, collection of static data for calculation of indicators in framework of a comprehensive assessment of state and development of modern ecosystem of education in the region (country), for example, the index of the innovation ecosystem of education. The sources of “investing in the future” are important to define clearly.
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