Alberto Nucciotti

University of Florence | UNIFI · Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali

A published version by Firenze University Press of my PhD thesis concerning academic entrepreneurship into engineering departments of state universities in Italy. How does normative change currently affect academic mission by STEM researchers on industrial engineering? What is the relevance of small research groups as micro-social dimension of labo...

In che modo il mutamento normativo attuale del lavoro accademico influenza l’emergere di comportamenti innovativi in chiave commerciale fra gli ingegneri industriali all’interno degli atenei pubblici? In particolare si è cercato di ricostruire l’emergere di una dimensione normativa imprenditoriale come processo di costruzione sociale che coinvolge...

Despite ‘knowledge transfer’ emerged as a separate field of study at least three decades ago, its academic literature remains rather fragmented. To reduce complexity, several journals’ special issues have attempted to frame up the literature both in a qualitative way and in a quantitative manner. Although these reviews help to bring some order to a...

Abstract How does normative change in academia affects commercially oriented conduits among industrial engineers in Italian public Universities? This research addresses how do principal investigators (full professors and/or researchers) strive to build up a social and organizational research group devoted to knowledge transfer and commercial scienc...