MIOIR Seminar Series - Exploring the emergence of a university-based accelerator: drivers, structure and ecosystem orchestration dynamics
| Dates: | 18 March 2024 |
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| Times: | 15:30 - 16:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Alliance Manchester Business School |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Monica Masucci |
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Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 23/24 with Monica Masucci, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at University of Sussex Business School, on Monday 18th March at 15:30-16:30, in 9.041 AMBS (Hybrid).
You can register to attend online or in-person, via this link: https://manchester-institute-of-innovation-research.ticketleap.com/mioir-seminar-series-with-dr-monica-masucci/
Exploring the emergence of a university-based accelerator: drivers, structure and ecosystem orchestration dynamics
Abstract:
This paper explores the creation and development process of an accelerator by a European business university, investigating the factors that led the university to found its own accelerator and that guided its set up process in terms of choice of focal activities and governance structure, as well as the mechanisms through which it creates value for its internal and external ecosystem. Relying on an in-depth case study approach, we conducted several interviews with members of the accelerator, key university stakeholders and external partners. Our empirical evidence points to the existence of both internal and external drivers that led to the emergence of the university accelerator and suggests that its operating and governance structures were strategically designed to leverage the university’s internal strengths and resources. It also underscores the key roles played by the top management of the university and by the internal champion in aligning views, building consensus, and negotiating solutions in this process. Finally, it reveals how by strategically orchestrating the relationships with internal and external stakeholders a university accelerator can successfully balance the need of creating value for both the university and the broader ecosystem in which it operates.
Monica Masucci is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Department of Strategy and Marketing at University of Sussex Business School, UK. She holds a PhD in Business Administration and Management from Bocconi University in Italy. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Copenhagen Business School and Ivey Business School, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.Before joining the University of Sussex in September 2011, she taught at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Bocconi University, University of Castellanza and University of Milan in the areas of strategy, entrepreneurship and cultural economics. She also worked on a number of research and consulting projects dealing mostly with firms' internationalization strategies, new business development and innovation management in the consumer goods and energy industries. Monica is also an Affiliate Professor of Innovation at SDA Bocconi School of Management.
Speaker
Monica Masucci
Role: Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Organisation: University of Sussex Business School
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Room 9.041 (Hybrid Event)
Aliiance Manchester Business School
Booth Street West
Manchester
