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- Hermansson, Ida, et al.
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How regions and networks affect knowledge intensive entrepreneurship
- 2015
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Ingår i: DRUID Academy 2015, January 21-23, Rebild, Aalborg, Denmark. ; 2015:D:F3, s. 1-20
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Entrepreneurship is closely entwined with regional development. This paper examines the role of networks in regional development, in the textile industry in Borås, Sweden.
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- Hermansson, Ida, et al.
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Bringing together engineering and equestrian sports: Exploring how a university initiates academic engagement with society
- 2018
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Ingår i: The DRUID 2018 Conference, Copenhagen, June 11-13 2018.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Within the extensive literature on university-industry interactions, one recent and influential stream of literature defines academic engagement with industry, and differentiates it from commercialization. This paper examines academic engagement with society and industry in a broad sense, by focusing on an area where interaction did not previously exist and where stakeholders do not have a tradition of interacting with universities. Bringing together engineering and equestrian sports in a European university constitutes the case study. The empirical material used includes 15 interview transcripts, field notes from 9 observations and document studies of 426 newspaper, articles and press from the period 2011-2017. We focus on how academics create the engagement with society, and the stakeholders, e.g. the process of developing the actual knowledge-related collaboration. Contrary to expectations, the main activities are related to education, but organized by individual researchers, and the university embeds what was initially an informal organization into a more formal organization, because the initiative attracted much public attention and potentially a target group for recruitment (e.g. female students interested in the overlap of engineering and equestrian sports).
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- Hermansson, Ida, et al.
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Exploring what roles the university can play in organizing interactions between researchers-users-business in order to use engineering knowledge to improve sports
- 2017
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Ingår i: Third Nordic STS (Science, Technology, Society) Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, 31 May - 2 June 2017.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Emerging new technology require an innovation network and organizational structures as well as integration of research, users and public policy which are supposed to give access to valuable resources (Chesbrough, 2006; Perkmann et al., 2013). Universities have to be seen as strategic actors, as an organization, and their role is changing in society and it may be useful to consider the university as an organization, trying to position themselves to obtain resources and set goals (Deiaco, Hughes, & McKelvey, 2012). Previous studies have emphasized more research of how and why academics engaged with the society in terms of providing three types of knowledge-intensive services: education, research and societal interaction (McKelvey & Zaring, 2017). However, literature on university-industry collaboration has paid little attention to societal interaction and how a university can create organizational structure to reformulate their engagement with the society and industry (Alexander, Miller, & Fielding, 2015). The working research question for this paper is "Exploring what role the university can play in organizing interactions between researcher - users - business in order to use engineering knowledge to improve sports? This paper is based on a case study of Chalmers Sport and Technology, a platform where researchers engage with universities, industry, public policy, students and society to undertake advanced sports-related research. The data consist of 7 interviews transcripts, field notes from 7 observations and document studies of 70 newspaper, articles and press from the period 2011-2017. The study shows that the university adopts unconventional strategies in their attempt to establish structures for academic engagement with the society. Findings indicate that this platform act as a facilitator for innovation and gives insights into how universities can engage users, collaborative reserach and governing bodies within equestrian sport in order to recrute students, create new reserach areas, commercialize knowledge and goodwill.
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- Malerba, F, et al.
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CO-EVOLUTION IN KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE ECOSYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHP IN HORSETECH
- 2018
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Ingår i: Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum workshop on "From startup to scale-up: Entreprenuership, human capital and scaling up new businesses", Stockholm, 29-30 October 2018.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A crucial issue for entrepreneurship in general is how to better capture and explain the dynamics of growing, and specifically process of moving from idea to a project to a venture and possibly to scale-up into a growth firm (Anyadike-Danes and Hart, 2015). However, entrepreneurship literature has recognized that this is not a linear process, and concepts of ecosystems are useful. Therefore, we place our version of the concept of ecosystem, in relation to the rapidly expanding literature on innovation ecosystems and entrepreneurial ecosystems more generally, which is being used in economic geography, strategy, and innovation studies more generally (Alvedalen & Boschma 2017; Audretsch & Belitski 2017; Adner, R. 2017; Jackson 2015; Spigel, B. 2017; Stam 2015). Our focus is upon dynamic processes associated with the emerging literature on knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship. Our case study focuses upon KIE entrepreneurship in horsetech, by examining the dynamics of a set of six KIE firms in horsetech in 1 European country (Sweden). This sport is the second largest in Sweden, with up to 30,00 people are employed, and 360 000 horses in a national population of 9 million. Within equestrian sports and horsetech more broadly, the case study focuses upon horsetech, with the companies analyzed Hoofstep, RideQ, Videquus, Equilab, Ridesum and Horsemeup. This represents the population of dedicated digital horse companies at the time of the study (Fall 2017-Spring 2018), based upon earlier empirical work on a broader range of topics (Berggren 2018; Hermansson 2018; Hermansson et al 2018). Our case study of KIE ventures in horsetech is based upon interviews with each founder, plus archival material, site visits, public records, and business data. Each of these KIE companies is primarily focused upon using software and IT to improve communication, training/competition, control and thereby improve safety, performance and equestrian well being. The companies are all early stage ventures, thereby with a focus upon processes from idea to project to company, with some indications of the possibilities of scale-up. The six companies are briefly presented historically, and then compared and contrasted in terms of: idea, knowledge required, what is innovation, sales/product/use and financing/revenues. In doing this analysis, the focus is upon the co-evolution between these KIE venture and the surrounding KI ecosystem. Our case study demonstrates how co-evolution plays out over time, and specifically in relation to the model proposed by Malerba and McKelvey (2018). Our focus is upon the co-evolution between knowledge and innovation, in ways which shape innovative opportunities. Specifically, we indicate how these KIE firms can use digital and new technologies, products, and services to push new consumption patterns, which in turn creates new market opportunities in the form of new goods and services. Therefore, tackling co-evolution of KIE entrepreneurship requires an understanding of what knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship mean, also in the context of sectors such as cultural and creative sectors as well as what is studied here, namely sports in traditional sectors.
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