Entrepreneurial Higher Education Education, Knowledge and Wealth Creation

TL;DR

This book explores how higher education institutions contribute to knowledge creation, research commercialization, and regional economic development, highlighting historical perspectives, successful cases, and social challenges.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of higher education in commercialization and regional wealth creation, including historical context and strategies to overcome social barriers.

Findings

Historical insights on education and commercialization

Case studies of successful academic commercialization

Discussion of social challenges and pathways to innovation

Abstract

This book presents detailed discussion on the role of higher education in terms of serving basic knowledge creation, teaching, and doing applied research for commercialization. The book presents an historical account on how this challenge was addressed earlier in education history, the cases of successful academic commercialization, the marriage between basic and applied science and how universities develop economies of the regions and countries. This book also discusses cultural and social challenges in research commercialization and pathways to break the status quo.