Nekane Errasti

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• Mondragon University

Cooperation between universities and business is manifest in a wide range of activities related to the three missions of the entrepreneurial university: education, research and entrepreneurship. However, the vast majority of University-Business Cooperation (UBC) literature has focused on R&D-related activities. This bias has given rise to a lack of...

In the last decades the European higher education landscape has changed from only teaching to economic and social development of the regions (Bronstein and Reihlen in Ind Higher Educ 28(4):245–262, 2014; Maassen in From governance to identity. Springer, Berlin, pp 95–112, 2009; Pinheiro and Stensaker in Public Organ Rev 14(4):497–516, 2013; Vukasov...

Purpose The entrepreneurial university is being widely studied, given its importance as an agent in economic and social development. This paper presents the findings of a study that had a twofold objective. Firstly, it sought to establish a model of maturity for the measurement of the level of academic entrepreneurship in universities. Secondly, i...

El emprendimiento académico se ha convertido en uno de los principales retos de las instituciones de educación superior de toda Europa. Pocas universidades en Europa tienen actividades de emprendimiento académico basadas en una estrategia de emprendimiento, con objetivos claros. Por ello, se requiere de un marco adecuado y cohesivo que abarque las...

Purpose: To address the challenges regarding the concept of Industry 4.0 and the diversification methodology and based on the strategic guidance towards Industry 4.0, we propose a process model as a guiding framework for Industry 4.0 collaborative diversification vision, strategy and action building. In this paper we suggest a stage process model t...

Purpose – The university is an institution with a long history and, over the course of the centuries, it has gone through several stages in its development. While initially conceived as an institution with a teaching “mission,” the university later adopted a knowledge generation function (research). In recent years, the idea has emerged that the u...

The evolution of thought on change has moved in the last two decades from the " visionary on top " , to an " experts improve whole systems " to the " everyone improves whole systems " approach (Sykes, 2008). Based on this belief a strong methodology was developed in 2007, the Lego Serious Play. The methodology believes in the potential of people, a...

The assumption that the innovation process is subject to historical conditions plays a central role in the evolutionary approach, what is reflected in various ways commonly used in studies on innovation. Thus, although business innovation has been seen by different authors and researchers as an evolving process, there are few studies that have cond...

The entrepreneurial university is regarded as an agent of societal change and an important instrument in the facilitation of the contemporary knowledge-based economy because it supports the generation and exploitation of knowledge through its three missions of education, research and academic entrepreneurship. Moreover, the entrepreneurial universi...

While research in innovation management has provided many insights into specific aspects of innovation, the encompassing problems confronting general managers, especially managers of small and medium-size firms, have been overlooked in the development of innovation management techniques and tools. This paper analyses the way innovation management t...

Due to its university-industry collaboration approach and philosophy, Mondragon University’s Faculty of Engineering (onwards EPS-MU) fosters the implementation of a project-based learning (onwards PBL) approach based on current industry demands. This new learning methodology involves industry within the whole PBL project; starting with the introduc...

The present paper shows the development and the results achieved through the project Techno-Cube; a pilot experience developed by the Engineering Faculty of Mondragon University which promotes a problem-based learning (onwards, PBL) project based on current industry demands. Concretely, this new learning methodology involves industry within the who...

The decline of industrial activity caused by the economic crisis has led to a significant increase in the number of unemployed. This same phenomenon has soared youth unemployment to record levels across the European Union. Thus, according to the European Commission, the youth unemployment between fifteen and twenty years of age in the EU has increa...

Europe is undergoing a crisis that has hit young Europeans with unprecedented levels of unemployment and the risk of social exclusion and poverty. In real figures, the unemployment rate of young people (aged 15 to 24) rose sharply from 15% in February 2008 to an unprecedented 22.6% in June 2012 [1]. Complementarily, there are several studies that s...

In the past few decades there has been a general trend in higher education towards more student-centred approaches to learning stressing self-directed learning, collaborative learning and learning related to practice [1]. A clear example of such innovative educational model is the problem-based learning (onwards, PBL). In the traditional PBL projec...

The evolution of thought on change has moved in the last two decades from the visionary on top, to an “experts improve whole systems” to the “everyone improves whole systems” approach (Sykes, 2008). Based on this believe a strong methodology was developed in 2007, the Lego Serious Play. The methodology beliefs in the potential of people, and also t...

The demand for entrepreneurship programmes, courses and activities in higher education is increasing globally (Volkmann et al., 2009). Typically, skill-building courses in entrepreneurship education entail creativity, new venture creation, business idea development and opportunity recognition, as well as soft skills like negotiation or presentation...

The demand for quality management of today’s colleges and universities, as well as the strengthening of their customer oriented approaches in interactions with students, enterprises, society and institutions in higher education has been increasing all over the time (Owlia and Aspinwall, 1996). Thus, higher education institutions have been implement...

There have been numerous calls for effective collaboration and more meaningful engagement between universities and industry. University-industry partnerships have long been realized as critical component for the successful de-velopment of a good university. This interaction between an academic institution and business and industry sector can occur...

The evolution of the university towards an Entrepreneurial University started with the second academic revolution, when the university adopted a third mission and became into a teaching, research and economic and social development enterprise [1]. For achieving this new status, an Entrepreneurial University requires to undertake “soft” and/or “hard...

The relocation of industry to countries with lower labour costs means that business approaches which have been valid so far are now becoming obsolete. With this in mind, the search and exploitation of opportunities constitute one of the current ways for companies to get ahead, and the project’s success becomes even more critical due to its performa...

The evolution of the university towards an Entrepreneurial University started with the second academic revolution, when the university adopted a third mission and turn into a teaching, research and economic and social development enterprise (Etzkowitz 2003). For achieving this new status, an Entrepreneurial University requires to undertake “soft” a...

In recent years, innovation has, for most firms, become a key issue in an economic context and numerous authors highlight innovation as a fundamental process in an organization's performance. Nevertheless, successful innovation requires setting up well-organized and well-run projects that will put things in place in the most effective and efficient...

Innovation is widely recognised as an appropriate 'tool' to gain competitiveness and it is often defined as an idea, process, service, product, etc., that is characterised as being new and commercially accepted. The description of the innovation process as a sequence of tasks is not new; but there is still no easy way to materialise these processes...

Palabras clave: 1. Introduction There have been numerous calls for effective collaboration and more meaningful engagement between universities and industry. University-industry partnerships have long been realized as critical component for the successful development of a good university. Over the last few decades the university-industry partnership...

This paper describes the evolution of Mondragon University (MU) towards an Entrepreneurial University, the diverse activities that we have carried out and the future actions that we are going to fulfil. This transition from one stage to the other is a hard work, because of the non acceptance towards entrepreneurship across the faculties and departm...

This paper aims to present a research work concerning the potential advantages of the use of collaborative environments based on social Web applications to support collaborative innovation processes. The challenge is how to encourage and facilitate the participation and collaboration in such processes through the articulation of an architecture of...

Las Unidades de I+D del País Vasco pueden definirse como organizaciones con estructura propia reconocible, encargadas de impulsar la innovación tecnológica dentro de sus empresas asociadas. A pesar de que las primeras Unidades de I+D se consolidaron hace más de dos décadas, este concepto de Unidad de I+D es relativamente nuevo en vista del crecimie...

La innovación se ha relacionado tradicionalmente con el esfuerzo en I+D (Baker & Sweeney 1978;Love & Roper 1999), entendiendo que un mayor esfuerzo supone unos mayores resultados de innovación. La adecuada definición de objetivos en materia de I+D (Benavides, 1993), incluso la búsqueda de financiación y soporte financiero adecuados para esta activi...