Innovative and creative entrepreneurship support services at universities

Abstract

In the context of the Entrepreneurial Universities, new stakeholders and new roles for the old ones have emerged. Accordingly, university entrepreneurship support services have to behave in a creative and innovating manner in order to actively support business creation at the university. This means that a common framework is necessary that includes the different stakeholders and goals, which gives a clear picture of the entrepreneurship encouragement and business development support (EE&BDS) process. We show a model for knowledge transfer and companies’ growth within the context of entrepreneurial universities. This alternative integrating approach of the different stakeholders, actors, activities, tools, goals and needs, help us to arrange and manage them in a better way. Our analysis allows us to show the role and relationships among the different university stakeholders and how this integrating approach contributes to enhance the EE&BDS process for this institution.