Innovation is a major engine of economic growth throughout the world. The drivers of innovation are many and diverse. Over the last decades, scientific research became a significant driver of breakthrough innovation, which propelled the university to the forefront as an engine of economic...

Industry-science links have become a key dimension of modern innovation management and policy. In order to support and develop those links, professional technology transfer organizations have been implemented by universities around the globe. In this paper, the growth and development of these...

Nowadays one observes an increasing interest in the entrepreneurial behaviour of universities. In this contribution the role of entrepreneurial universities within national innovation systems is situated. Specific attention is being paid to the alleged presence of unintended side effects on the...

In this paper we will discuss how large established firms can be effective in organizing innovation alongside their current business. We examine the trajectory of an incumbent firm in the telecommunication industry – Alcatel – which has been successful in exploring and exploiting the...