This book examines the ways in which universities can play a crucial role in inclusive development, social innovation and social entrepreneurship. It aims to prove the importance of inclusive development and inclusive innovation on economic growth and demonstrate the ways in which universities...

Considers the emerging "entrepreneurial university" as the center of knowledge production and analysis in a knowledge-based economy. As society and industry become more and more knowledge-based, the role of the university is shifting from academic development to the economic development tied to...

The development of academic research capacities carries within itself the seeds of future economic and social development in the form of human capital, tacit knowledge and intellectual property. Channelling knowledge flows into new sources of technological innovation has become an academic task,...

Contents: Foreword / by Sally Hardy -- 1. Introduction: Pipeline break / Henry Etzkowitz, Helen Lawton Smith, Colette Henry and Alexandra Poulovassilis -- Part I: Gender cultures and institutions -- 2. Being an early career academic: is there space for gender-equality in the neoliberal...