Editorial: Student entrepreneurship, between genius and recklessness: how to connect scientific knowledge, creativity and innovation management

摘要

Research on student entrepreneurship is clearly burgeoning, yet, it remains a fragmented field. Currently, no literature review exists that specifically focuses on university students' entrepreneurship and provides an overarching framework to encompass the different pieces that make it up student entrepreneurship. It is noteworthy that the research stream on student entrepreneurship views entrepreneurial activity as a step in the natural evolution of a university system that emphasises economic development in addition to the more traditional mandates of education and research. This special issue aimed at revealing the importance of factors that affect significant societal influences from academia to society, and vice versa, as the high interdependence with the government and industry firms, the different sources of income, the entrepreneurial activities of all community members (students, academic and faculty), the implementation of different strategies to improve the creation of new venture and the adjustments in its organisational structure (Del Giudice et al., 2014). Most of the articles in this research stream attempt to reveal organisational designs of universities that inhibit or enhance the commercialisation of university inventions. Studies have revolved around incentive systems, university status, location, culture, intermediary agents, focus, experience, and defined role and identity. In addition to organisational design, other studies focus on the characteristics and roles of faculty and the nature of the technology to be commercialised (Nicotra et al., 2014). Thus, some studies express, implicitly or explicitly, the phenomena of intrapreneurship or process that goes on inside an existing firm, in this case institution, and leads not only to new business ventures but also to other innovative activities and orientation such as development of new products, services, technologies, administrative techniques, strategies and competitive postures (Del Giudice and Straub, 2011). The structural shifts in the entrepreneurial orientation of university pave the way for the ability to innovate, recognise and create opportunities, work in teams, take risks and respond to challenges, on its own, seek to work out a substantial guidance in organisational character so as to arrive at a more promising posture for the future. In other words, it is a natural incubator that provides support structures for students to initiate new ventures: intellectual, commercial and conjoint.