Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First CenturyIn Engines of Innovation, Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein make the case for the pivotal role of research universities as agents of societal change. They argue that universities must use their vast intellectual and financial resources to confront gl |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 The Entrepreneurial Opportunity | 9 |
2 Entrepreneurial Science | 22 |
3 Enterprise Creation | 38 |
4 Social Entrepreneurship | 53 |
5 Multidisciplinary Centers | 68 |
6 Leadership | 85 |
7 Academic Roles | 97 |
9 Teaching Entrepreneurship | 118 |
10 Accountability | 133 |
11 The New Donors and University Development | 141 |
Conclusion | 151 |
Engines RevisitedA ThreeYear TuneUp | 155 |
Notes | 163 |
Acknowledgments | 169 |
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