Development of academic entrepreneurship in a non-mature context: the role of the university as a hub-organisation

Véronique Schaeffer and Mireille Matt ()

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Abstract: This paper focuses on how the evolving roles of a university and its Technology Transfer Office (TTO) are stimulating academic entrepreneurship in a non-mature entrepreneurial ecosystem. A more mature entrepreneurial ecosystem was built gradually by these actors through their progressive creation of innovation intermediaries and coordination among the local players involved in the creation of start-ups. We analyse how the university became a hub organisation. We use the case of the University of Strasbourg to show that the university contributed to the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem by acting as a boundary spanner and by building and orchestrating the network of the stakeholders in the local system of innovation. This ‘hub' university became a leading regional organisation at the political level. The TTO played a central role in supporting academic entrepreneurship at the operational level based on its evolution from a revenue maximising model to a model that takes account of social and economic regional development. The progressive adoption of a more selective model of start-up creation requires good coordination among the local actors. Over time, the TTO's boundary spanning function increased to encompass the development of operational network building and orchestrating functions.

Keywords: Hub university; Technology Transfer Office; Start-up; University; Boundary spanner; Hub organization; Academic entrepreneurship; Regional context (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2016, 28 (9-10), pp.724-745. ⟨10.1080/08985626.2016.1247915⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2016.1247915

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