Entrepreneurial Universities in Innovation-Seeking Countries - Challenges and Opportunities

This book considers how an entrepreneurial university can improve the social and economic development of countries which are technologically underdeveloped, exploring university models in two moderately innovative countries: Spain and Croatia.


Marina Dabi? is Professor of Entrepreneurship and International Business at the University of Zagreb, Croatia and Nottingham Business School-NTU, UK. She is the editor of five book series on entrepreneurship in universities and has guest-edited several special issues on innovation, HRM, and transfer technology. She has widely published in international business management science journals and has received grants for several EU-funded projects.

Jadranka Švarc is Senior Research Fellow at the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Croatia. She is an expert in science and innovation policy in transition countries and has been Head of the Department for the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on socio-economic and cultural aspects of the knowledge society, innovation system, and research policy and she has published over 40 scientific articles.

Miguel González-Loureiro is Assistant Professor of International Business and Strategic Management at the University of Vigo, Spain. His research interests are the intersection between the strategy of survival-growth, internationalization, entrepreneurship, innovation and intangible management. He has published over 30 scientific articles and has guest-edited special issues in the field of strategy and intangible management.