Abstract
Extant empirical entrepreneurship studies recognize that the main challenge of emerging economies is transforming into entrepreneurial societies. Following this perspective, the involvement of several actors (government, universities, entrepreneurs, investors, etc.) is required in this evolutionary process. In this regard, emerging economies’ governments promote the configuration of entrepreneurial ecosystems to achieve this transformation. Even in previous insights, the role of each actor is an interesting attention for academics and policy makers. In this sense, this chapter tries to provide a better understanding about the role of higher education organizations as driver of entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems in Mexico. Our analysis provides evidence about the relevance of incentives in configuration of triple mission of Mexican higher education organizations as well as their lower participation in the involvement of innovation and entrepreneurial activities.
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According to Hoskisson et al. (2000), some countries identified as emerging or transitional economies are (in alphabetical order) Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
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For further details, [http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2008/01/weodata/groups.htm#oem].
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For further details, review Gobierno de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (2007).
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For further details, review Gobierno de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (2013).
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The World Economic Forum (2013) recognizes the importance to create and operate an entrepreneurial ecosystem as well as proposes some pillars to the growth/success of ventures such as accessible markets, human capital, funding, support systems, regulatory framework, education/training, and cultural support.
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The authors acknowledge the support received by the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), National Science and Technology Council (CONACYT), and Ministry of Education (SEP) to access the databases. Fernando Herrera acknowledges the PhD scholarship and support from the Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM). Maribel Guerrero acknowledges the financial support from Santander Universidades (Iberoamerica Scholarship for Young Researchers). David Urbano acknowledges the financial support from projects ECO2013-44027-P (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) and 2014-SGR-1626 (Economy and Knowledge Department—Catalan government).
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Herrera, F., Guerrero, M., Urbano, D. (2018). Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem’s Drivers: The Role of Higher Education Organizations. In: Leitão, J., Alves, H., Krueger, N., Park, J. (eds) Entrepreneurial, Innovative and Sustainable Ecosystems. Applying Quality of Life Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71014-3_6
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