Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Academia

Erik E. Lehmann is Full Professor and holding the Chair of Management and Organization at the University of Augsburg, and Director of the CisAlpino Institute of Comparative Studies in Europe (CCSE) at the University of Augsburg, Germany.Michele Meoli is Associate Professor of Corporate Finance at the Department of Economics and Technology Management at the University of Bergamo, and Deputy Director of the CisAlpino Institute for Comparative Studies in Europe (CCSE) at the University of Bergamo, Italy.Stefano Paleari is Full Professor of Finance and Public Management at the Department of Economics and Technology Management at the University of Bergamo. He is President of the CISAlpino Institute for Comparative Studies in Europe (CCSE) at the University of Bergamo, Italy.

• 1. Innovation, entrepreneurship and the academic context 2. The impact of the abolishment of the professor’s privilege on European university-owned patents 3. A burden of knowledge creation in academic research: evidence from publication data 4. How the university ecosystem shapes the innovation capacities of undergraduate students – evidence from Germany 5. Transformative change in higher education: entrepreneurial universities and high-technology entrepreneurship 6. Looking inside the determinants and the effects of entrepreneurial innovation projects in an emerging economy