Publicly Funded Principal Investigators as Transformative Agents of Public Sector Entrepreneurship

James A. Cunningham (), Paul O’Reilly, Conor O’Kane and Vincent Mangematin
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James A. Cunningham: Northumbria University
Paul O’Reilly: Dublin Institute of Technology
Conor O’Kane: University of Otago
Vincent Mangematin: Grenoble Ecole de Management

Chapter Chapter 3 in Essays in Public Sector Entrepreneurship, 2016, pp 67-94 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract National governments consistently implement an array of public sector entrepreneurship policies and activities, seeking to generate further economic activity and create new networks and market opportunities that reduce market risks and uncertainties for market-based technology exploiters. This means that scientists taking on the role of being a publicly funded principal investigator (PI) is at the nexus of science, government and industry, and can have a significant influence and impact on shaping and delivering outcomes of public sector entrepreneurship policies and activities. Within the emerging public sector entrepreneurship literature (see Leyden and Link 2015; Link and Link 2009), we argue that publicly funded PIs as key public sector entrepreneurship transformative agents, through scientific novelty and originality involving some creative and innovative processes that can be exploited for opportunities with good market or societal potential. Publicly funded PIs are key agents of what Leyden and Link (2015:14) define as public sector entrepreneurship:

Keywords: Principal Investigator; Economic Prosperity; Project Partner; Industry Partner; Project Budget (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26677-0_3

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