Building a Culture of Entrepreneurial Initiative in Rural Regions Based on Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of University of Applied Sciences–Municipality Innovation Partnership
- The purpose of the study is to provide empirical evidence about the under-researched area of university–government relations in building a culture of entrepreneurial initiatives inside the triple helix model in a rural region. The study deploys a qualitative case study research method based on the content analysis of project documentation and further internal documents both from universities and municipalities. The propositions in the research question are guided by the previous literature and were then analyzed through an “open coding” process to iteratively analyze, verify, and validate the results from the documents against the previous literature. Results presented in the case study are related both to the project of a municipality–university innovation partnership, as well as the historic development of the university in its three missions, and, related to the important third mission, themes relevant for the project. In addition, a “toolkit” of relevant project activities is presented against the major identified themes, major project stakeholders, as well as relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Universities should look beyond a purely economic contribution and should augment all three missions (teaching, research, engagement) by considering social, environmental, and economic aspects of its activities. Instead of considering a government’s role solely as that of a regulator, a much more creative and purposeful cooperation between university and government is possible for creating a regional culture of entrepreneurial initiatives in a rural region.
Document Type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Author: | Ivan Paunović, Cathleen Müller, Klaus Deimel |
Parent Title (English): | Sustainability |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 19 |
Article Number: | 12108 |
Number of pages: | 19 |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-64409 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912108 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Place of publication: | Basel |
Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
Date of first publication: | 2022/09/25 |
Copyright: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. |
Keywords: | MAXQDA; engaged university; knowledge transfer; qualitative research; social Innovation; socially engaged university; systemic regional innovation; technological innovation; third mission; transfer office; triple helix; university–government relations |
Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Centrum für Entrepreneurship, Innovation und Mittelstand (CENTIM) | |
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 65 Management, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit / 650 Management und unterstützende Tätigkeiten |
Entry in this database: | 2022/10/07 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |