Building on a variety of contrasting perspectives, this book focuses on the connection
between university spin-offs and regional economic development. It aptly captures the …

The book records how academic entrepreneurship reflects how the changing roles of
universities feeds into and is a response to specificities of regional development. The …

The link between the presence of a university and the creation of innovative start-ups in a
region is well established (Baptista et al., 2011; Fritsch and Aamoucke, 2013; Ghio et al …

Universities can be central to a region's economic growth and development, especially if
they support start-up, spin-off and modernisation processes related to the regional core …

The postulations “entrepreneurship is primarily a regional event” from Feldman (2001) and"
entrepreneurial university" by Etzkowitz (2004) have increased recognition of universities in …

This study explores the economic factors that are associated with the success of university
spin-offs. Drawing on a unique sample of academic entrepreneurs from research institutions …

Over the past years, the role of universities has been faced with important changes that led
to substantial attention from both researchers and policy-makers to their third mission …

The term entrepreneurial university was first coined (Etkowitz, 1983) in the context of what
were described as “research universities”. The entrepreneurial process referred to was …

The structure of the book and the organisation of material within chapters are well thought
out with the authors skilfully weaving empirical material from diverse sources into an easily …

Drawing on the literature pertaining to the role universities play in promoting technology
transfer, this paper develops an insightful conceptualization of spin-off processes, and …