Entrepreneurial education ecosystems are increasingly recognized as strategic environments within universities that foster entrepreneurial knowledge, culture, and venture creation. However, the interplay between institutional factors and educational outcomes in these ecosystems remains underexplored, particularly from a dynamic, system-level perspective. This study addresses this gap by developing a theory-driven agent-based model—the Entrepreneurial education ecosystems Model: “3E […]
The increasing integration of digital technologies (DT)—such as artificial intelligence, big data, and extended reality—is transforming the domain of academic entrepreneurship. Despite the growing interest in digital academic entrepreneurship, extant literature rarely distinguishes the unique institutional challenges faced by student entrepreneurs, whose ventures are typically less resource-intensive, more agile, and deeply embedded in digitally mediated […]
The work aims to model the behavior of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as representatives of civil society to investigate how they contribute to the development of Innovation Value Chains (IVCs) under consideration of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) keys and practices. Specifically, we examined how the presence of NGOs within a network influences the diffusion of […]
In recent years, the European Commission (EC) has emphasized inclusive and sustainable governance policies, to offer solutions to the problems that arise in the relationship between science and society. With Horizon 2020’s and transversal programs like the Science with and for Society (SwafS) a new approach to research and innovation is born: Responsible Research and […]
The present research aims at defining the scope of an emerging phenomenon occurring in a peripheral suburb in the East area of the city of Naples (Italy), characterised by the settlement of a knowledge intensive Hub involving innovation, technology and knowledge transfer processes. The main subject of the study is the San Giovanni a Teduccio […]
Digital entrepreneurship represents a relevant socio-economic and technological phenomenon that creates new spaces of opportunities where different kind of organizations can leverage digital technologies to shift the traditional mode of creating, supporting and doing business. Among these organizations, incubators should effectively exploit digital technologies to support the creation and development of innovative startups. Notwithstanding, some […]
Our investigation proposes a preliminary analysis on the diffusion of digital technologies in Entrepreneurship centers as emerging mechanisms to deliver entrepreneurial activities. Our research question is: how entrepreneurship research centres (Italian Contamination Labs) are adopting digital technologies to support the variety of entrepreneurial activities they deliver? An explorative study of 12 Entrepreneurship centers named “Contamination […]
Purpose – This paper presents the preliminary results of a research aimed at mapping the knowledge interactions between universities and industries in Southern Italy. We focused on a specific type of knowledge interactions, namely “research services”, that are activities that firms give to universities and that are regulated by specific contracts establishing objectives, deliverables and […]