New movements in academic entrepreneurship / edited by Päivi Eriksson [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Eriksson, Päivi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University-based new business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2021.

Summary:

Focusing on academic entrepreneurship in the university context, the authors explore how researchers, teachers, students, academic managers and administrators make sense of entrepreneurship and of the paradoxes and contradictions involved. The book investigates how these diverse entrepreneurial actors and their stakeholders interpret and analyse entrepreneurial activities within the university ecosystem.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Tables

Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction: from diversity of interpretations to sustainability of institutions

PART I Higher education policy and administration on the move

2. The role of European Union in creating Europe of knowledge

3. Higher education marketization in England: employable or entrepreneurial graduates (or both)?

4. Experimenting in the organisational periphery: introducing extra-curricular entrepreneurship education in traditional research universities

PART II Entrepreneurial universities claiming their future

5. The Third Mission of universities: a boundary object with interpretative flexibility

6. Beyond the ecosystem metanarrative: narrative multiplicity and entrepreneurial experiences at the University of Waterloo

7. Identity work of a researcher in entrepreneurial university backyard research

PART III Discomforting and delighting: The student experience of academic entrepreneurship

8. The formation of and resistance to enterprising labouring subject in academia: a case study of a translation graduate entering the labour market

9. Doing gender in the student entrepreneurship society programme

10. Ability self makes a difference - university students' perceptions of employability and entrepreneurship

PART IV Academics becoming entrepreneurs

11. You never travel alone - challenging the masculine ethos of individualismin academic entrepreneurship

12. Social academic entrepreneurship: contextual understanding

13. Becoming credible? An alternative narrative of start-ups in an accelerator program

PART V Future movements

14. Understanding academic entrepreneurship as fields of moral orders: theoretical and methodological perspectives of positioning theory

PART VI Epilogue.

15. Stirring and disturb - urgingthe movement of academic entrepreneurship onwards

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Eriksson, Päivi New Movements in Academic Entrepreneurship

ISBN:

1-80037-013-X