177,216 research outputs found
Cross-border co-operation as policy entrepreneurship: explaining the variable success of European cross-border regions
No full textThe article addresses the recent proliferation of Cross-Border Regions, or Euroregions, across the EU. It aims to explain why they have been more successfully institutionalised in some areas while they have had less success in others. It conceptualises Euroregions as the outcome of policy entrepreneurship strategies through which support is mobilised on the local level and the Euroregions are institutionalised into durable organisations. Based on a systematic comparison of three cases, the EUREGIO, Viadrina and Tyrol, it is shown how different administrative and institutional environments throughout the EU affect the ability of Euroregions to engage in policy entrepreneurship. At the same time, it is shown that is it premature to perceive Euroregions as new types of regional territorial entities; rather, they constitute an institutional form through which existing authorities engage in collective action across nation-state borders within the context of EU multi-level governance
The construction of new scales: a framework and case study of the EUREGIO cross-border region
No full textThe article proposes a framework for analysing re-scaling processes and applies it to a case study of the Dutch-German EUREGIO cross-border region. While much of the scale debate focuses on the causes and consequences of re-scaling, the article addresses the conditions and circumstances in which new territorial scales emerge and suggests a framework of necessary components of re-scaling processes. Informed by neo-Gramscian thinking, the scales debate as well recent analyses of regionalisation, these are formulated as: political mobilisation, governance building and strategic unification. The case study locates the EUREGIO case with respect to these dimensions. The article concludes that this framework can be used for studying and comparing other re -scaling cases and presents an initial typology for classifying cross-border regions
Investigating academics’ industry engagement through survey data
No full textOver the past thirty years, the attention toward the commercialization of knowledge developed within universities has increased dramatically. Universities are a prototype for knowledge-intensive organizations and as such they provide lines of discovery and analysis that help scholars understand broader research commercialization dynamics, including open innovation, organizational change and individual entrepreneurial behavior. Yet researchers also face challenges that are specific to this type of organization. This workshop aims to continue the rich discussion from the 2007 and 2008 AOM Annual Meetings. Our aim in this year’s session is to provide the opportunity for participants to learn about approaches, data sources and methods available for the study of universities. Approaches, data and methods used by researchers in this field vary widely. We therefore see this PDW as providing a one-stop-shop for both early career and more experienced faculty researchers to gain an overview on recent developments and future challenges in this area
The diversity of academic entrepreneurship: evidence from the EU
No full textThe diversity of academic entrepreneurship: evidence from the E
“Speedy License, Greater Value? The economic and technological impact of the timing of the licensing strategy”
No full textAttention to Exploration: The Effect of Academic Entrepreneurship on the Production of Scientific Knowledge
No full textWe study how becoming an entrepreneur affects academic scientists' research. We propose that entrepreneurship will shift scientists' attention away from intradisciplinary research questions and toward new bodies of knowledge relevant for downstream technology development. This will propel scientists to engage in exploration, meaning they work on topics new to them. In turn, this shift toward exploration will enhance the impact of the entrepreneurial scientist's subsequent research, as concepts and models from other bodies of knowledge are combined in novel ways. Entrepreneurship leads to more impactful research, mediated by exploration. Using panel data on the full population of scientists at a large research university, we find support for this argument. Our study is novel in that it identifies a shift of attention as the mechanism underpinning the beneficial spillover effects from founding a venture on the production of public science. A key implication of our study is that commercial work by academics can drive fundamental advances in science
Research on university research commercialization: approaches, methodologies, and data sources, Professional Development Workshop at Academy of Management Meeting, Montreal, Canada
No full textOver the past thirty years, the attention toward the commercialization of knowledge developed within universities has increased dramatically. Universities are a prototype for knowledge-intensive organizations and as such they provide lines of discovery and analysis that help scholars understand broader research commercialization dynamics, including open innovation, organizational change and individual entrepreneurial behavior. Yet researchers also face challenges that are specific to this type of organization. This workshop aims to continue the rich discussion from the 2007 and 2008 AOM Annual Meetings. Our aim in this year’s session is to provide the opportunity for participants to learn about approaches, data sources and methods available for the study of universities. Approaches, data and methods used by researchers in this field vary widely. We therefore see this PDW as providing a one-stop-shop for both early career and more experienced faculty researchers to gain an overview on recent developments and future challenges in this area
Through the looking glass: Status spillovers across social boundaries
No full textThis study explores how and under what conditions the social status acquired in a field may influence status judgments in another field. We focus on scientists’
involvement with industry and predict that academic status will be partially recognized
by private research funders. Yet, such status spillovers are not unconditional, but may
vary with the credentials scientists have accumulated in industry and the experience
funders have acquired of academia. We test and find strong support for our theory on the
full population of scientists at Imperial College London from 2004 to 2011. Contributions
to the literatures on social status and organization theory are briefly discussed in
conclusion
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