Abel Diaz Gonzalez

• Ph.D. in Business Economics
• Assistant Professor in Social Entrepreneurship at Maastricht University

Coordinated by: Nikolay A. Dentchev ii Social Entrepreneurship and Vulnerable Groups ERMIScom project "Common curricula for diversity: education in media and integration of vulnerable groups", has been financed within the framework of Erasmus+ program (KA2-Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education, Nr 2020-1-EL01-KA203-078981). The Project has de...

The purpose of this research is to explore how social innovation ecosystems utilize resources and which roles are played by universities in contributing to building these ecosystems in the Global South. Resource Orchestration Theory is utilized to identify four critical roles that universities play at the meso-level organizational processes: bridgi...

Social innovations (SIs) offer creative solutions to complex social problems and often require the exchange of necessary resources, knowledge, and expertise among various actors. These actors form an ecosystem that can support the development of successful SIs. In this special topic forum introduction, we first discuss the literature related to the...

This paper explores the role of business incubators and accelerators (I&As) in the scalability of socialentrepreneurs. We explore how these organisations operate as a part of the supportive ecosystems forsocial entrepreneurs. We conducted a comparative case study of the supportive ecosystem for socialentrepreneurs in Kenya and Bolivia. We analysed...

This is a summary of the 2023 International Conference on New Business Models (NBM 2023) proceedings, which focused on exploring innovative ways of developing sustainable and responsible business models. The conference brought together a multidisciplinary community of scholars and industry leaders to exchange knowledge, ideas, and experiences. The...

Social Entrepreneurship constitutes a crucial driver of social innovation (Hall, Matos, Sheehan, & Silvestre, 2012). This is due to the fact that social entrepreneurs use creative business models to resolve social and environmental challenges (Evans et al., 2017). By doing so, they develop much-needed innovations for contemporary societies, positiv...

Purpose: Despite growing scholarly interest in academic entrepreneurship (AE) few studies have examined its non-commercial aspects and how it contributes to meeting grand societal challenges. One explanation for this may be the continuing focus of AE on intellectual property commercialization. This paper aims to address this knowledge gap by uncove...

This paper investigates the role that universities play in supporting social entrepreneurs (SEs) across their ecosystem. Adopting the Resource-Based View (RBV) approach, we argue that universities attract, mobilise and deploy multiple resources that benefit SEs through four main mechanisms (i.e. teaching, research, outreach and development of partn...

University-Industry collaboration (UIC) literature is largely documented with Western European or North-American evidence, where universities are rich in resources and have well-developed R&D infrastructure. Likewise, our knowledge remains limited about UIC in emerging countries, where research resources and R&D are scarce. In this article, we addr...

Este Libro reúne las experiencias compartidas en la Cumbre de Emprendimiento Social “Juntos podemos crear un mundo mejor”, en inglés The Social Entrepreneurship Summit “Together we can create a better world”, donde académicos, estudiantes, líderes empresariales, funcionarios gubernamentales y emprendedores sociales, unidos en este espacio, intercam...

Purpose – SEs often face various challenges whereby they rely on the support of others to realize their objectives. In this context, ecosystem thinking is very helpful to understand how various stakeholders can assist SEs. The goal of this paper is to develop a classification of the different types of support that third parties can provide to SEs....

This book provides what it promises to the reader, i.e. A financial guide for social entrepreneurs. It departs from the challenges that social entrepreneurs face to fund their ventures. We discuss three main challenges in this context: 1. Access to funding; 2. Complexity of business models; 3. Predominant focus on social impact. This book offers...

Universities are considered as important actors in ecosystems supporting social entrepreneurs due to their resources and intellectual property, based on scientific research. Such a view is based on discussions drawing on evidence in Western economies, i.e. mainly North America and Europe. However, this view is irrelevant to many developing countrie...

Most of the relevant studies in Academic Entrepreneurship attempt to explain the importance of the role of universities in economic growth. A reason for the above is that universities generate research-based intellectual property, which can be later transferred to the industry or transformed into a university spin-off company. However, the scientif...

This call for paper encourages submissions from participants to the New Business Models Conference in Graz Universität, Austria on 20-23 June 2017 (http://new-business-models.uni-graz.at/en/). Although participation to the conference is recommended, it is not a precondition for publication. The main topic of the conference is related to the “changi...

Collaborative online platforms in support of social entrepreneurs have not yet been discussed as a tool of universities in their role as incubators within the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Entrepreneurship, as the driving force of socio-economic development, receives quite a lot of attention from universities, both from a knowledge and technology poin...