IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/innchp/978-3-319-00179-1_2.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

University Ecosystems Design Creative Spaces for Start-Up Experimentation

In: The Experimental Nature of New Venture Creation

Author

Listed:
  • Martin Curley

    (National University of Ireland
    Intel Labs Europe)

  • Piero Formica

    (National University of Ireland
    University of Tartu
    International Entrepreneurship Academy)

Abstract

Religious roots marked the medieval university, alma mater of the Second Millennium higher education institutions. For centuries, the ‘ivory tower’ syndrome, a reminiscence of their monastic lineage, has affected academic institutions. Einstein said, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created universities (society) that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift”. This kind of thinking pervaded, limiting the scope of some universities to knowledge and student production. It seems that analysis has taken precedence over synthesis/creation (in addition to theory always taking precedence over practice). This dissonance between the work of a university and value creation was hinted at by CK Prahalad at the 2010 Global Drucker Forum when he said, “I have never seen a next practice emerge from a regression analysis”.

Suggested Citation

  • Martin Curley & Piero Formica, 2013. "University Ecosystems Design Creative Spaces for Start-Up Experimentation," Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management, in: Martin Curley & Piero Formica (ed.), The Experimental Nature of New Venture Creation, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 13-22, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:innchp:978-3-319-00179-1_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00179-1_2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:innchp:978-3-319-00179-1_2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.