This paper discusses the phenomenon of academic entrepreneurship and its significance to university education, societal development and economic development. It analyzes and presents academic entrepreneurship as a leadership process of creating value through acts of organizational creation, renewal or innovation within or outside the university that results in research and technology commercial...

Sustainability-oriented organizations have typically adopted governance approaches that undertake community participation and collaboration through multistakeholder arrangements. Documented challenges of this model are associated with collaboration and institutional capacity, and include reactive accountability structures, inability to reach consensus, funding limitations, and lack of innovatio...

Entrepreneurship is considered as a key factor on the growth and development of economy are at the center of international competition in which comparative sharp edge of them take account the organizational flexibility and continuous changing strategy at the process, product and design. During few past years, governments are encouraged seriously entrepreneurship, because entrepreneurship lead t...

The value of networks as integral part of the explanation of entrepreneurial success is widely acknowledged. However, the network perspective lacks specification of the various dimensions of a network and their impact on the early development of a venture. We make a distinction between a Schumpeterian start-up pursuing a radical innovation and a Kirznerian venture on basis of an incremental inn...

Recent work links entrepreneurship to the economic theory of firm using the Knightian concept of entrepreneurship as judgment. When judgment is complementary to other assets, and these assets or their services are traded in well-functioning markets, it makes sense for entrepreneurs to hire labor and own assets. The entrepreneur’s role, then, is to arrange or organize the human and capital asset...

The literature focuses on innovation as an adaptive mechanism. From functionalist and evolutionary adaptation perspectives, innovative organizational populations should be expected to survive longer than normal ones, because innovative organizations and populations should be more adaptive than normal ones. The mortality rates of innovative organizational populations have not been identified, ho...

this research was conducted to investigation organizational climate role in entrepreneurial r&d; in agricultural technology management that was implemented as a correlation research by using casual model. statistical population of the study was consisted of 2768 agricultural research experts in iran, one out of each six regional groups of provinces was randomly selected and 320 researchers were...

There has been a burgeoning literature about interfirm network and innovative performance. However, in reviewing the extant literature we find different interpretations regarding how firms should be tied to one another in networks. The paper employs case study to explore and explain the relative propositions of interfirm network, different organizational learning and technological innovation. I...

Received: 24 April 2008 Revised: 21 August 2008 Accepted: 22 August 2008 Abstract The public sector is often considered synonym with inefficiency and a lack of motivation to be innovative. This paper seeks to contribute towards the literature surrounding social entrepreneurship in the public sector, through using institutional theory to underpin an e-Innovations model that promotes social entre...