Universities and regional economic development: The entrepreneurial University of Waterloo

By Allison Bramwell, David Wolfe. 2008

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations

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A knowledge-based typology of university spin-offs in the context of regional economic development (2010, background): “We decided to focus on IT firms in our study because they likely have a stronger impact on regional innovation, and have often been emphasized as being of key importance for regional growth and modernization in the region (e.g. Bramwell et al., 2008; Bramwell and Wolfe, 2008).”
Entrepreneurial activity and regional competitiveness: evidence from European entrepreneurial universities (2016, background): “Therefore, within the entrepreneurial society, the entrepreneurial university could contribute to economic impact through the generation, attraction, and retention of talented human capital and entrepreneurs (Bramwell and Wolfe 2008).”
Connecting local entrepreneurial ecosystems to global innovation networks: open innovation, double networks and knowledge integration (2011, background): “, venture capital) maintain creative energy in regions with entrepreneurial ecosystems, such as Silicon Valley (Bahrami and Evans, 1995), Grenoble (Malecki and Moriset, 2008) and Waterloo (Bramwell and Wolfe, 2007).”
Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems (2018, background): “…in entrepreneurial ecosystems after entrepreneurs themselves, and a large subset of research focuses on universities as hubs of such ecosystems (Bramwell & Wolfe, 2008; Fernandez Fernandez, Blanco Jimenez, & Cuadrado Roura, 2015; Fetters, Greene, Rice, & Butler, 2010; Kingma, 2014; O'Connor &…”
Entrepreneurial Universities (2013, background): “At this end, academic entrepreneurship contributes to the generation, attraction, and retention of prestigious researchers (Bramwell & Wolfe, 2008), who, in turn, would facilitate the innovation process and the creation and transfer of knowledge through patents, licenses, and spin-offs (Colombo,…”
The Economic and Innovation Contribution of Universities: A Regional Perspective (2009, background): “…development in other ways, such as through cultural activities and the promotion of social inclusion, which can lead to wider organic links between business and universities (Lockett et al., 2003; Chapple et al., 2005; Drucker and Goldstein, 2007; Abreu et al., 2008; Bramwell and Wolfe, 2008).”
Does inventor ownership encourage university research-derived entrepreneurship? A six university comparison (2011, neutral): “But only in a “Technology Triangle” comprised of three cities, aterloo-Kitchner, Guelph, and Cambridge does Canada have a oncentrated high-technology agglomeration (Bathelt et al., 2010; ramwell and Wolfe, 2008; Bramwell et al., 2008).”
Conceptualizing academic entrepreneurship ecosystems: a review, analysis and extension of the literature (2018, background): “Finally, several studies have offered case studies of single institutions, including Water-loo University (Bramwell and Wolfe 2008), Chalmers University (Jacob et al. 2003), Uni-versidad de Simon Bolivar (Gassol 2007), Strathclyde University (Levie 2014), the University of British Columbia (Rasmusse”
Entrepreneurship education and training as facilitators of regional development: A systematic literature review (2017, background): “What has happened is that more and more universities have played a strategic and fundamental role in regional development (Bramwell and Wolfe, 2008) by contributing to the transfer of research to enterprises, contributing to entrepreneurship education or supporting the process of setting up…”
The Relational Organization of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (2017, background): “Many observers connect this ecosystem with an entrepreneurial culture that dates back to the region ’ s founding by Mennonite farmers and German immigrants in the 19 th century (Bramwell et al., 2008).”