Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/146854 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship [ISSN:] 2192-5372 [Volume:] 5 [Issue:] 12 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 1-10
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
The academic firm is a type of firm (firm-based organization or institution) that is being driven by focusing on encouraging, supporting, and advancing knowledge production (research, research and experimental development, R&D) and knowledge application (innovation). The academic firm interprets and qualifies a disciplinary (interdisciplinary) variety of the background of its employees (and their competences) as a potential opportunity and asset to perform creatively in knowledge production and knowledge application. The academic firm has an interest to engage in networks with universities (higher education institutions) or other academic research institutions, driven out of a desire to access university knowledge (for example, basic university research). In general, the academic firm values engagement in diversified networks as a form for creating knowledge as well as benefitting from opportunities. The academic firm accepts in principle, in certain situations even promotes, split employment or "cross-employment" (multi-employment) of its employees with other (academic) organizations or institutions, for example universities or other higher education institutions. The proposition here is that the academic firm represents a new design (and redesign) for entrepreneurship in innovation-driven knowledge economy.
Subjects: 
Academic firm
Commercial firm
Creativity
Cross-employment
Crossretirement
Design
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Knowledge application
Knowledge economy
Knowledge production
Linear innovation
Networks
Non-linear innovation
Redesign
Research (R&D)
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