Collaborations between entrepreneurial universities and businesses through knowledge and technology transfer have beneficial impacts. Such collaborations can be through formal and or informal channels.
However, such engagements and collaborations can be impeded by barriers – organisational, structural, resources, process etc. Such barriers can make it challenging for entrepreneurial universities to engage with rural businesses and communities and vice versa.
Against this background, our team’s main focus for this project, one of seven commissioned by NICRE, is to examine how entrepreneurial universities and rural communities engage and collaborate, in fostering and supporting innovation and entrepreneurship, as there is a lack of research attention and focus on this issue.
To address this, we are going to undertake a systematic literature review to assemble what we know given the literature fragmentation. The themes that emerge will contribute to the development of a Delphi study of engaging with a variety of ecosystem actors to explore and identify what are the:
