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What is Institutional Field

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Examining the Role of Entrepreneurial Universities in Regional Development
a system of multiple and sometimes contesting institutional logics, in which organisational and individual actors, possibly across boundaries of several organisational fields, are not only influenced by the logics but also foster changes of the logics through their interactions.
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The Role of University as Institutional Entrepreneur in Regional Innovation System: Towards an Analytical Framework
Yuzhuo Cai (Tampere University, Finland) and Cui Liu (Zhejiang University, China)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0174-0.ch007
Abstract
Recent literature has moved from a primarily economic perspective to awareness of the institutional role of a university in a regional innovation system. This chapter contributes to the scholarly discussions by combining the theories of institutional entrepreneurship and institutional logics to provide an analytical framework for understanding how universities can support institutional change in a regional innovation system. In particular, the authors consider the university as an institutional entrepreneur that not only initiates diverse changes in the institutional environment, but also actively participates in the implementation of such changes. The analytical framework is used to analyse the case of Tongji University in a regional innovation system in Shanghai, China.
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