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Entrepreneurship at the Universitat Politècnica de València

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There is growing interest in entrepreneurship within universities. Universities aim to develop entrepreneurial skills in their students and establish the necessary paths to support entrepreneurial activities. This chapter focuses on entrepreneurial universities as key agents for the socioeconomic development of cities, regions, and nations. The chapter examines the transformation of universities to meet new business development needs and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) as an entrepreneurial university.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Carlos Rueda-Armengot

  2. Organización de Empresas, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, Edificio 7D, Valencia, 46022, Spain

    Sofía Estelles-Miguel, Marta Elena Palmer Gato & José Miguel Albarracín Guillem

  3. Management Control and Information Systems, University of Chile, Av. Diagonal Paraguay, 257, Santiago, 8330015, Chile

    Jose M. Merigó Lindahl

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Correspondence to Sofía Estelles-Miguel .

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  1. Department of Business Administration, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Marta Peris-Ortiz

  2. School of Business Administration, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

    Jaime Alonso Gómez

  3. Department of Management Control and Information Systems, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

    José M. Merigó-Lindahl

  4. Department of Business Administration, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Carlos Rueda-Armengot

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Rueda-Armengot, C., Estelles-Miguel, S., Palmer Gato, M.E., Albarracín Guillem, J.M., Merigó Lindahl, J.M. (2017). Entrepreneurship at the Universitat Politècnica de València. In: Peris-Ortiz, M., Gómez, J., Merigó-Lindahl, J., Rueda-Armengot, C. (eds) Entrepreneurial Universities. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47949-1_16

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