Collaborating for Innovation: the socialised management of knowledge

Although the importance of diverse knowledge is widely recognised for open innovation, there may be a gap in our understanding of the social processes that shape how collaborators engage in knowledge exchange. This social gap may be significant because of the powerful, but largely unexplained, role attributed to trust as a social artefact. Moreover, we see trust as a process and that different types of trust are involved in the collaborative process. Thus, this paper uses a qualitative methodology to capture the experiences of innovation collaborators. As explanation of the dynamic interplays of knowledge and trust, we offer a description of phases in the process. Our analysis finds that the relationship moves from transactional to social. The early phases are characterised by technical knowledge, but the later and mature phases are identified with knowledge of the person and by personal trust. The success of innovation is a result of relationships with augmented trust. We found that a fabric of trust is woven from the weft of professional knowledge and the warp of personal knowledge to support innovation. We propose that this developing of relationships might be conceived as becoming more open in the sense of sharing with one another. If so, we seem to have described and offered a social dimension of open innovation

Tracking entrepreneurial mind among university students through Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) technology

Entrepreneurship which has become a major influence for the development of modern nation and individual in respect of innovation, competitiveness and economic strength, is one of the important skills students nowadays should have as a preparation before they graduated from university. However, entrepreneurial venture is a challenging task especially for student. This study therefore is carried out to encourage student to be an entrepreneur by investigating the difference of mind behavior between students with and without entrepreneurial interest through functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) technology. The study was conducted on thirty engineering students that got high score and low score during entrepreneurial opportunity recognition (EOR) survey. The result indicates that student with entrepreneurial interest has a high opportunity recognition during the moment of finding the entrepreneurial opportunities from stimulus given due to their high attention and working memory function. This investigation hopes to give motivation among students on their inclination and enthusiasm in welcoming the entrepreneurial call

Entrepreneurship education and gender in Europe : a systematic literature review of studies in higher education

Entrepreneurship is considered an important factor for economic growth. And although female entrepreneurs offer outstanding socio-economic potential, there are still more men working as entrepreneurs than women. Support for female entrepreneurs is improving in Europe but compared to the United States there is still progress to be made. Major differences can also be identified between European countries. Although one way to foster entrepreneurship is via entrepreneurship education, reviews about entrepreneurship education in combination with gender studies are rare. This paper performs a systematic literature review, presenting the state of entrepreneurship education and gender within the last decade, and generating a European map of research. European samples are descriptively analyzed, and six different issues are identified. Implications for practitioners and policymakers are provided, and the article concludes with insights revealing where more research is needed and how it could be performed in Europe