Dr. Daria Gołębiowska-Tataj gives a presentation about her research. Organizational studies, economic research and recent historical experience show that effectiveness of collaborative partnerships is largely a function of innovation and of entrepreneurship supported by industry and academia collaboration towards generating new products and processes; innovation because it creates wealth out of the synergy generated by recombining knowledge, and entrepreneurship because once innovation is generated, there is a need to manage and finance the process of bringing new products and processes into the market. Evidence shows that bridging the gap between innovation and markets can be done through a diverse set of entities starting with small innovative firms and ending with large multinationals, through non-for-profit organizations, as well as public institutions including universities.
However, knowledge that innovation and entrepreneurship are the sources of effectiveness of collaborative partnership between industry and academia does not solve the problem. The next unanswered question is how innovation and entrepreneurship are generated in our current global networked world. The answers may lie in reshaping both the theory and practice of innovation in the knowledge-driven economies. In order to do this, there is a need to re-evaluate the conceptual framework of entrepreneurship in our age of rapid technological and organizational change. Searching answers to these questions is of importance especially for European economies struggling with the economic crisis since 2008.
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