Entrepreneurial university stakeholders and their contribution to knowledge and technologies transfer

Abstract

In order to allow technologies transfer out of university boundaries, academia engage with different sets of stakeholders at different stages of knowledge creation and dissemination process. In this way, the entrepreneurial university builds an ecosystem that promotes and facilitates an interactive model of innovation. Engagement with stakeholders provides different outputs, leading to the licensing of technologies and new ventures creation. All these topics are considered in the research agenda of the entrepreneurial ecosystem and academic entrepreneurship literature. This book chapter provides a conceptual framework on what the entrepreneurial university is with respect to its collaboration with other actors in facilitating the licensing of technologies and the creation of new companies. We do it by categorising university stakeholders and describing their role within the knowledge creation and dissemination process.