Assessing the Entrepreneurial Orientation of University Departments. A Comparative Study Between Italy and Spain

Angelo Riviezzo, Francisco Liñán Alcalde and Maria Rosaria Napolitano
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Angelo Riviezzo: University of Sannio
Maria Rosaria Napolitano: University of Sannio

Chapter Chapter 3 in Entrepreneurial Universities, 2017, pp 35-46 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper aims at empirically measuring the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of university departments and the impact it has on their ability to generate patents and spin-offs from research. Moving from a recent operazionalization of universities’ EO developed by a group of scholars in Canada, we used a web-based questionnaire to collect information from 206 heads of department of Italian and Spanish universities. Through a multiple regression analysis we assessed the relationship between departments’ EO and performance, expressed in terms of patents and spin-offs. Our findings show that the EO significantly affects the ability of university departments to generate patents and spin-offs. However, not all the dimensions we used to operationalize the EO play the same role. In this sense, our study shows that much more attention should be paid to the context-specific conditions, that can definitively affect the results and the relationships between the investigated variables. Implications, limitations and future improvements of the research are discussed.

Keywords: Academic entrepreneurship; Context conditions; Entrepreneurial orientation; Entrepreneurial university; Entre-U scale; Exploratory factor analysis; Industry collaboration; Italy; Patents; Questionnaire; Regression analysis; Research mobilization; Spain; Spin-offs; Survey; Unconventional fundraising; Unconventional networking; University departments; University mission; University policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47949-1_3

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