TY - JOUR

T1 - University-linked programmes for sustainable entrepreneurship and regional development

T2 - how, and with what impact?

AU - Wagner, Marcus

AU - Hansen, Erik

AU - Schaltegger, Stefan

AU - Fichter, Klaus

N1 - Funding Information: We are grateful to our colleague Markus Beckmann for valuable inputs and discussions during the earlier stages of this project and the corresponding paper, as well as for beneficial comments from the participants at the G-Forum 2017 in Wuppertal and from two anonymous reviewers. Erik Hansen furthermore thanks Quality Austria - Trainings, Zertifizierungs und Begutachtungs GmbH, Vienna and the State of Upper Austria for their funding of the Institute for Integrated Quality Design. Publisher Copyright: © 2019, The Author(s).

PY - 2021/2/1

Y1 - 2021/2/1

N2 - State universities are increasingly being transformed from institutions with traditional teaching and research responsibilities to have a third, societal role in sustainable regional and economic development. In doing so, universities support knowledge spillovers to improve sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems that benefit economic revitalization or further development of regions. At the same time they promote stakeholder involvement in crucial governance processes at the regional level. Based on a comparative case study design building on three cases in Germany, our research analyses these interdependencies focussing on university-linked support programmes for sustainable entrepreneurship and the effects on sustainable regional development. Our findings provide a nuanced view clarifying the different roles universities have, how knowledge spillovers are created, and what outputs, outcomes, and effects are realized at the regional level and beyond. Specifically, we demonstrate that depending on the regional context, different configurations, pathways, and intervention points of universities may equally improve sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems.

AB - State universities are increasingly being transformed from institutions with traditional teaching and research responsibilities to have a third, societal role in sustainable regional and economic development. In doing so, universities support knowledge spillovers to improve sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems that benefit economic revitalization or further development of regions. At the same time they promote stakeholder involvement in crucial governance processes at the regional level. Based on a comparative case study design building on three cases in Germany, our research analyses these interdependencies focussing on university-linked support programmes for sustainable entrepreneurship and the effects on sustainable regional development. Our findings provide a nuanced view clarifying the different roles universities have, how knowledge spillovers are created, and what outputs, outcomes, and effects are realized at the regional level and beyond. Specifically, we demonstrate that depending on the regional context, different configurations, pathways, and intervention points of universities may equally improve sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

KW - University

KW - Support

KW - programmes

KW - Sustainable entrepreneurship

KW - Regional development

KW - Innovation

KW - Facilitation

KW - sustainability

KW - Ecopreneurs

KW - Start-ups

KW - University

KW - Support

KW - Programmes

KW - Sustainability

KW - entrepreneurship

KW - Regional

KW - Development

KW - Innovation

KW - Facilitation

KW - sustainabel

KW - Ecopreneurs

KW - Start-ups

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074864817&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s11187-019-00280-4

DO - 10.1007/s11187-019-00280-4

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85074864817

VL - 56

SP - 1141

EP - 1158

JO - Small Business Economics

JF - Small Business Economics

SN - 0921-898X

IS - 3

ER -