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New Movements in Academic Entrepreneurship
Focusing on academic entrepreneurship in the university context, the authors explore how researchers, teachers, students, academic managers and administrators make sense of entrepreneurship and of the paradoxes and contradictions involved. The book investigates how these diverse entrepreneurial actors and their stakeholders interpret and analyse entrepreneurial activities within the university ecosystem.
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Focusing on academic entrepreneurship in the university context, the authors explore how researchers, teachers, students, academic managers and administrators make sense of entrepreneurship and of the paradoxes and contradictions involved. The book investigates how these diverse entrepreneurial actors and their stakeholders interpret and analyse entrepreneurial activities within the university ecosystem.
New Movements in Academic Entrepreneurship covers research commercialisation, academic start-up companies and entrepreneurship education, as well as university-society relationships more widely. With contributions from Europe, North America and Asia, this book helps to broaden our understanding of academic entrepreneurship using original theoretical insights and rich empirical data.
Essential reading for students and researchers of entrepreneurial universities and ecosystems, this book provides fresh theoretical frameworks and an inclusive understanding of academic entrepreneurship.
New Movements in Academic Entrepreneurship covers research commercialisation, academic start-up companies and entrepreneurship education, as well as university-society relationships more widely. With contributions from Europe, North America and Asia, this book helps to broaden our understanding of academic entrepreneurship using original theoretical insights and rich empirical data.
Essential reading for students and researchers of entrepreneurial universities and ecosystems, this book provides fresh theoretical frameworks and an inclusive understanding of academic entrepreneurship.
Critical Acclaim
‘Entrepreneurship has travelled in unexpected ways – it has expanded, multiplied and has now infiltrated the academic terrain, both for good and for bad. This book illuminates the routes it has taken, the encounters it has made, and asks us as academics to reconsider both how it has shaped us and the institution of knowledge. This laudable book seeks to move us as academics to take a sceptical approach to praise of academic entrepreneurship, but also to remain hopeful for our ability to nurture academia as a place for desire, joyfulness and curious experimentation that makes space for intellectual work.’
– Karin Berglund, Stockholm University, Sweden
‘This book expands the boundaries of the many different roles academics and academic institutions play in both furthering and hindering entrepreneurship (as construed in a variety of forms and methods) in a variety of contexts for a variety of individuals engaged in the practices of entrepreneurship. A major value of this book is that it challenges the academic ecosystem to consider a more expansive view of what entrepreneurship is, who is engaged in these different forms of entrepreneurship, and, to recognize that these varieties of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship already exist and can flourish, if we are willing to let go of our misguided preconceptions and misunderstandings.’
– William B. Gartner, Babson College, US
– Karin Berglund, Stockholm University, Sweden
‘This book expands the boundaries of the many different roles academics and academic institutions play in both furthering and hindering entrepreneurship (as construed in a variety of forms and methods) in a variety of contexts for a variety of individuals engaged in the practices of entrepreneurship. A major value of this book is that it challenges the academic ecosystem to consider a more expansive view of what entrepreneurship is, who is engaged in these different forms of entrepreneurship, and, to recognize that these varieties of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship already exist and can flourish, if we are willing to let go of our misguided preconceptions and misunderstandings.’
– William B. Gartner, Babson College, US
Contributors
Contributors: Eeva Aromaa, Alisha E. Christie, Anna Elkina, Päivi Eriksson, Pasi Hirvonen, Daniel Hjorth, Ulla Hytti, Kari Kantasalmi, Kati Kasanen, Katri Komulainen, Maija Korhonen, Hanna Laalo, Sari Laari-Salmela, Ryan T. MacNeil, Jukka Moilanen, Tero Montonen, Santana Ochoa Briggs, Kaisu Paasio, Outi-Maaria Palo-oja, Kirsi Peura, Hannu Räty, Minna Salminen-Karlsson, Subhanjan Sengupta, Connor Sheehan, Päivi Siivonen, Chris Steyaert, Tiina Suopajärvi, Michael Tomlinson, Juha Tuunainen, Luk Van Langenhove, Oili-Helena Ylijoki
Contents
Contents:
Foreword xv
1 Introduction: from diversity of interpretations to sustainability of institutions 1
Päivi Eriksson, Ulla Hytti, Katri Komulainen, Tero Montonen and Päivi Siivonen
HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION ON THE MOVE
2 The role of European Union in creating Europe of knowledge 19
Luk Van Langenhove and Päivi Eriksson
3 Higher education marketization in England: employable or entrepreneurial graduates (or both)? 31
Michael Tomlinson, Päivi Siivonen and Hanna Laalo
4 Experimenting in the organisational periphery: introducing extra-curricular entrepreneurship education in traditional research universities 48
Juha Tuunainen, Kari Kantasalmi and Sari Laari-Salmela
ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITIES CLAIMING THEIR FUTURE
5 The Third Mission of universities: a boundary object with interpretative flexibility 68
Tero Montonen, Päivi Eriksson and Kirsi Peura
6 Beyond the ecosystem metanarrative: narrative multiplicity and entrepreneurial experiences at the University of Waterloo 83
Ryan T. MacNeil, Santana Ochoa Briggs, Alisha E. Christie and Connor Sheehan
7 Identity work of a researcher in entrepreneurial university backyard research 103
Kirsi Peura, Anna Elkina, Kaisu Paasio and Ulla Hytti
DISCOMFORTING AND DELIGHTING: THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE OF ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP
8 The formation of and resistance to enterprising labouring subject in academia: a case study of a translation graduate entering the labour market 124
Katri Komulainen and Maija Korhonen
9 Doing gender in the student entrepreneurship society programme 143
Anna Elkina
10 Ability self makes a difference – university students’ perceptions of employability and entrepreneurship 163
Kati Kasanen and Hannu Räty
ACADEMICS BECOMING ENTREPRENEURS
11 You never travel alone – challenging the masculine ethos of individualism in academic entrepreneurship 181
Tiina Suopajärvi, Minna Salminen-Karlsson and Oili-Helena Ylijoki
12 Social academic entrepreneurship: contextual understanding 202
Subhanjan Sengupta
13 Becoming credible? An alternative narrative of start-ups in an accelerator program 219
Jukka Moilanen, Outi-Maaria Palo-oja, Eeva Aromaa and Tero Montonen
FUTURE MOVEMENTS
14 Understanding academic entrepreneurship as fields of moral orders: theoretical and methodological perspectives of positioning theory 235
Pasi Hirvonen and Luk Van Langenhove
EPILOGUE
15 Stirring and disturb – urging the movement of academic entrepreneurship onwards 253
Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert
Index
Foreword xv
1 Introduction: from diversity of interpretations to sustainability of institutions 1
Päivi Eriksson, Ulla Hytti, Katri Komulainen, Tero Montonen and Päivi Siivonen
HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION ON THE MOVE
2 The role of European Union in creating Europe of knowledge 19
Luk Van Langenhove and Päivi Eriksson
3 Higher education marketization in England: employable or entrepreneurial graduates (or both)? 31
Michael Tomlinson, Päivi Siivonen and Hanna Laalo
4 Experimenting in the organisational periphery: introducing extra-curricular entrepreneurship education in traditional research universities 48
Juha Tuunainen, Kari Kantasalmi and Sari Laari-Salmela
ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITIES CLAIMING THEIR FUTURE
5 The Third Mission of universities: a boundary object with interpretative flexibility 68
Tero Montonen, Päivi Eriksson and Kirsi Peura
6 Beyond the ecosystem metanarrative: narrative multiplicity and entrepreneurial experiences at the University of Waterloo 83
Ryan T. MacNeil, Santana Ochoa Briggs, Alisha E. Christie and Connor Sheehan
7 Identity work of a researcher in entrepreneurial university backyard research 103
Kirsi Peura, Anna Elkina, Kaisu Paasio and Ulla Hytti
DISCOMFORTING AND DELIGHTING: THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE OF ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP
8 The formation of and resistance to enterprising labouring subject in academia: a case study of a translation graduate entering the labour market 124
Katri Komulainen and Maija Korhonen
9 Doing gender in the student entrepreneurship society programme 143
Anna Elkina
10 Ability self makes a difference – university students’ perceptions of employability and entrepreneurship 163
Kati Kasanen and Hannu Räty
ACADEMICS BECOMING ENTREPRENEURS
11 You never travel alone – challenging the masculine ethos of individualism in academic entrepreneurship 181
Tiina Suopajärvi, Minna Salminen-Karlsson and Oili-Helena Ylijoki
12 Social academic entrepreneurship: contextual understanding 202
Subhanjan Sengupta
13 Becoming credible? An alternative narrative of start-ups in an accelerator program 219
Jukka Moilanen, Outi-Maaria Palo-oja, Eeva Aromaa and Tero Montonen
FUTURE MOVEMENTS
14 Understanding academic entrepreneurship as fields of moral orders: theoretical and methodological perspectives of positioning theory 235
Pasi Hirvonen and Luk Van Langenhove
EPILOGUE
15 Stirring and disturb – urging the movement of academic entrepreneurship onwards 253
Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert
Index
