2nd workshop of Entrepreneurship
"Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Role of Universities"Entrepreneurial ecosystems attract increasing interest of researchers and practitioners. Such ecosystems are characterized by entities, which are loosely interconnected in networks and co-evolving capabilities around a shared set of knowledge or skills. Actors in these networks work in a dynamic competitive as well as collaborative environment. A better understanding of entrepreneurial ecosystems promises valuable insights into entrepreneurial activities and their success.   
Accordingly, the workshop on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems at the Free University Bozen - Bolzano intents to provide a platform for discussion and knowledge sharing about current research and developments in this emerging field. We invite theoretical and empirical contributions about the role of universities, in entrepreneurial ecosystems, cluster formation, network dynamics, complexity, ecosystem externalities, competition and collaboration and the like.

Program

Friday, November 27th 2015 
Room D1.01

2 p.m. -  Opening of the Faculty
Walter Lorenz, Rector of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

2.30 p.m.
Entrepreneurial ecosystem and the role of universities: trembling assumptions and disputable associations
Mario Benassi & Matteo Landoni
Università degli Studi di Milano & Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano 

3.15 p.m.
Relatedness and connectivity in technological domains: the “missing links” in S3 design and implementation
Donato Iacobucci & Enrico Guzzini
Università Politecnica delle Marche & Università eCampus  

4 p.m. Coffee break  

4.30 p.m.
Comparative case study analysis of the performance evaluation system for university incubators and TTOs in Italy
Yulia Boyko
University of Pavia 

5.15 p.m.
A Model of Innovation and Knowledge Development Among Geographically Clustered Firms
Guido Fioretti Università di Bologna  

6.30 p.m.
University knowledge and the creation of knowledge-intensive firms: The moderating effect of the local banking industry
Niccolò Ghio, Massimiliano Guerini & Cristina Rossi-Lamastra
Politecnico di Milano  

7.15 p.m. – Conclusions    


Saturday, November 28th 2015 
Room D1.01  

9.15 a.m. - Opening
Chairspeaker: Christian Lechner
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano  

9.30 a.m.
Is it better to go alone or in good company? Exploring the role of business incubators in shaping the innovation performance of knowledge- and technology-intensive start-ups
Silvia Rita Sedita, Roberta Apa, Thomas Bassetti & Roberto Grandinetti
University of Padova  

10.15 a.m.
Competences and entrepreneurial training in Ph.D. Students: A research on Ph.D. students of Verona University
Anastasia Ferrari & Giuseppe Favretto
University of Verona  

11 a.m. Coffee break  

11.30 a.m.
The effects of university-level support policies on female participation in academics patenting
Anna Kochenkova, Federico Munari, Paola Giuri & Rosa Grimaldi
Università di Bologna  

12.15 a.m.
An Organizational Typology of Technology Transfer: A study of Technology Transfer Ecosystems at Research Universities
Matthew Good, Birthe Soppe & Mirjam Knockaert
University of Oslo & University of Gent  

1 p.m. - Conclusions