The academic firm: a new design and redesign proposition for entrepreneurship in innovation-driven knowledge economy

David F. J. Campbell () and Elias G. Carayannis ()
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David F. J. Campbell: Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt
Elias G. Carayannis: The George Washington University

Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2016, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract The academic firm is a type of firm (firm-based organization or institution) that is being driven by focusing on encouraging, supporting, and advancing knowledge production (research, research and experimental development, R&D) and knowledge application (innovation). The academic firm interprets and qualifies a disciplinary (interdisciplinary) variety of the background of its employees (and their competences) as a potential opportunity and asset to perform creatively in knowledge production and knowledge application. The academic firm has an interest to engage in networks with universities (higher education institutions) or other academic research institutions, driven out of a desire to access university knowledge (for example, basic university research). In general, the academic firm values engagement in diversified networks as a form for creating knowledge as well as benefitting from opportunities. The academic firm accepts in principle, in certain situations even promotes, split employment or “cross-employment” (multi-employment) of its employees with other (academic) organizations or institutions, for example universities or other higher education institutions. The proposition here is that the academic firm represents a new design (and redesign) for entrepreneurship in innovation-driven knowledge economy.

Keywords: Academic firm; Commercial firm; Creativity; Cross-employment; Cross-retirement; Design; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Knowledge application; Knowledge economy; Knowledge production; Linear innovation; Networks; Non-linear innovation; Redesign; Research (R&D) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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