International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 18 Issue 4

The university role in the innovative leadership of small to medium sized enterprises: Towards “universities for a modern renaissance” (UMR)

James Powell

Society now expects the universities it funds to work with citizens and communities to enable them to flourish in sustainable ways. One particular aspect of this concerns support…

Open innovation in universities: What motivates researchers to engage in knowledge transfer exchanges?

Antonio Padilla‐Meléndez, Aurora Garrido‐Moreno

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the main factors affecting researcher engagement in knowledge transfer exchanges (KTE) in an Open Innovation (OI) context, devoting…

Universities in an open innovation system: a UK perspective

Jeremy Howells, Ronnie Ramlogan, Shu‐Li Cheng

The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and impact of higher education institution (HEI) in a distributed, open innovation system using a survey of some 600 firms in…

Open innovation and SMEs: Exploring policy and the scope for improvements in university‐based public programmes through a multidisciplinary lens

Arturo Vega, David Brown, Mike Chiasson

The purpose of this paper is to explore, through the use of a multidisciplinary lens, the policy context and the scope for improvements in university‐based public programmes…

Developing business school/SMEs collaboration: the role of trust

Fariba Darabi, Murray Clark

To investigate the initiation and development of effective business relationships, including knowledge transfer partnerships, with the primacy of trust as a key factor for…

Generative potential and the business development manager

Clinton Bantock

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the development of understanding of the social processes involved in business engagement and understanding of the role of knowledge…

NETS: a design tool for activating social networks

Marzia Mortati, Leon Cruickshank

The purpose of this paper is to address social network theory from the perspective of design research and propose a new conceptual approach to understanding and developing social…

Open innovation and HEIs: introduction

Mary Rose, Sarah Jack