Giuliano Sansone

University College Dublin | UCD · School of Business

Social entrepreneurship has emerged as a global phenomenon aimed at tackling societal grand challenges through market‐based activities. A holistic understanding of social enterprise outcomes is crucial for reflecting their effectiveness in meeting social objectives and informing internal organizational processes. This study explores the outcomes of...

The literature presents various contributions regarding students' entrepreneurial intentions. However, only a few recent papers have delved into the realm of student entrepreneurship, encompassing both nascent entrepreneurs (i.e., students who are in the process of creating their own businesses) and active entrepreneurs (i.e., students who already...

In the fall of 2019, a global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) negatively impacted the economy of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) worldwide. It is essential to identify effective resilience strategies to help SMEs overcome economic and financial crises caused by pandemics or other exogenous crises. This paper delves into this aspect by ask...

Blockchain is a promising and emerging technology. Despite the number of studies on the subject, several studies require further exploration of the relationship between blockchain and social innovation. Moreover, there is an increasing interest in social entrepreneurship and in how technical solutions may address social or environmental issues. Hen...

Despite the importance of social impact in the field of social entrepreneurship, there is an ongoing debate among researchers regarding its conceptualization and measurement. Through a multiple-case study of 38 social enterprises and 11 impact investors in USA, Europe, and India, we study the social impact of social enterprises at individual, commu...

Student entrepreneurship is becoming more relevant for universities throughout the world. Therefore, it is important to analyze the strategies and mechanisms adopted by universities to support student entrepreneurship. In this article, we analyze the mechanisms used by universities to promote student entrepreneurship through University Business Ide...

Even if several studies analysed the impact of entrepreneurship education, just a very few studies analysed the impact of international entrepreneurship education program on entrepreneurial intention. However, due to the diffusion of entrepreneurship education around the world, the higher demand from students for entrepreneurship courses, and the i...

Science and Technology Parks (STPs) are key elements of the infrastructure supporting the growth of today's global knowledge economy. STPs create environments that foster collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and provide innovation services to support new technology-based firms in their activities. However, despite the extensive research...

Although a great deal of attention has been paid to entrepreneurship education, only a few studies have analysed the impact of extra-curricular entrepreneurial activities on students’ entrepreneurial intention. The aim of this study is to fill this gap by exploring the role played by Student-Led Entrepreneurial Organizations (SLEOs) in shaping the...

New ventures depend on the capability of entrepreneurs to transform an idea or a technology into a successful company. The literature on entrepreneurship has recognized that Entrepreneurship Education (EE) plays a key role in this process, but the literature on academic spinoffs has focused on other determinants (e.g., Technology Transfer Offices -...

Questo volume si propone quale spazio aperto alla riflessione e alla discussione per dar voce ad un dibattito tanto attuale quanto ancora troppo spesso rimandato: il modello educativo/formativo universitario del prossimo futuro. Un modello che quanto mai oggi deve essere in grado di conoscere le proprie risorse e le proprie tempistiche per attivare...

This paper defines and analyses incubators that mainly support start-ups with a significant social impact. In 2016, a survey was conducted on the 162 incubators active in Italy, and a total of 88 responses were received. An analysis of the literature and of this dataset led to the identification of three types of incubators: Business, Mixed, and So...

Purpose Entrepreneurship Education (EE) is increasing throughout the world. In 2012, the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) financed Contamination Labs (CLabs), which are laboratories that are aimed at developing entrepreneurial mindsets in all university students. This study analyses the entrepreneurial learning process...

This chapter aims to contribute to the debate related to entrepreneurship education (EE) within Italian universities. Specifically, it investigates the strategic role of the Italian Contamination Labs (CLabs) created inside some public universities and financed by the MIUR (Italian Ministry of University and Research) as innovative laboratories aim...

Interest in offering Entrepreneurship Education (EE) to all kinds of university students is increasing. Therefore, universities are increasing the number of entrepreneurship courses intended for students from different fields of study and with different education levels. Through a single case study of the Contamination Lab of Turin (CLabTo), we sug...

Venture philanthropy organisations (VPOs) help social enterprises (SEs) to achieve social impact and economic sustainability. This paper aims at explaining why VPOs invest in SEs and how they select their investments. It is based on the case study of an international VPO: danone.communities. Our findings show that VPOs provide SEs with financial an...

Vibrant entrepreneurship ecosystems have developed within the CLUSTER Consortium universities with significant contributions to European and global startups and entrepreneurial initiatives. CLUSTER is a consortium of 12 top engineering and technology universities in Europe and the E4T Erasmus plus project develops interactive programs for our stude...

Un fenomeno di grande attualità e rilevanza, che sta attirando sempre maggiore attenzione all'interno degli ecosistemi imprenditoriali a livello internazionale è rappresentato dalle start-up create da studenti universitari o neo-laureati. Questo fenomeno sta diventando sempre più frequente e rilevante anche in Italia, sebbene rimanga ancora poco st...