Peter Kiryushin, Bala Mulloth, Tatiana Iakovleva

FORFI case workshop of 2012, 14 – 15 June, Oslo

A Comparative View on the Role of Academic Entrepreneurship in

Regional Innovations Systems of Oresund and Moscow

• Graduated from: Moscow State University (MSU), Economics & Crisis management. 2nd degree: Lund University (Sweden) and Central European University (Hungary)

• Defended PhD; Research Fellow at MSU. Previous research projects: Business-Government Relations, Changing Behavior, Energy Oresund

• OECD Workshop on Eco-Innovations, UNESCO Chair Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education , Changing Behavior Workshops; internship at Russian Union of Business Angels; bottom-up initiatives in HEIs

• AE paper accepted to publish at the 7th conference on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

About me

How collaboration and entrepreneurial education in universities is conducive to the implementation and commercialization of

research-based innovations?

• “Best regions” vs. “regional realism”• Why it is important to make academia more entrepreneurial?

(to improve entr`l capital of RIS or to achieve specific goals?)• Who should be more entrepreneurial – researchers,

students? • What kind of innovations should be developed in a specific

region?• Cross-border/ national/ local cases for AE• How to measure efficiency of promotion of

entrepreneurship?• Factors for innovation & entrepreneurship?

Some issues to consider

Source: IIIEE 2011

Oresund RIS

• Academic capacity• Scandinavian context • Cross-border collaboration• Leading for cleantech• Medicon Valley

Moscow RIS

The value for the AE project

• Academic capacity• Transition economy• Relevant to post soviet• Need for modernization• Success in the past

Step 1: Literature reviewon academic entrepreneurship , cross-

border innovation system and cleantech

Step 2: Interviewingexperts in entrepreneurship and innovation,

researchers, business people

Literature reviewprovided generally positive knowledge on

the Öresund RIS development, based on the studying of the past trends

Interviewsgave the different perspectives. “Pieces of

puzzle”, concerning the current stage and the future, based on the individual experience,

research results and personal reflections

Entrepreneurship then and now

Strategies for cleantech–industry

collaboration Medicon Valley and gatekeepers

Öresund Entrepreneurship Academy and LUIS

When networks and clusters are efficient?

Biotech companies moved to more attractive regions!

Development of cross-border relations takes time

Are social innovations coming?

Skepticism about the future transnational

collaboration

1990’s – mid 2000’s: policy-cooperation,

rise of biotech & pharmaceuticals, bridging the sides

Stages of cross-border innovation collaboration

mid 2000’s – nowadays: sober view on the

networking, scientific and economic results of

cooperation

nowadays – the future: “climate-smart region”,

role of cleantech development and entrepreneurship?

Sjælland -20% GHG by 2020 (to 1990

level)

• København carbon-neutral in 2025

Skåne-30% GHG by 2020

(to 1990 level)

•Albertslund -25% GHG by 2015:

• Ballerup 25% RES by 2015

• Malmö100% RES by 2025

• Kristianstad-20% GHG by 2020

(to 1990 level)

• Lund-50% GHG by 2020

(to 1990 level)

ÖRESUND LOW-CARBON GOALS

(Academic) Entrepreneurship

and Russian oligarchs

State demand for innovations in Soviet time (Space, military)

Old-school researchers and

new entrepreneurs

Who and how should we teach

Importance of personal relations

Lack of interests, infrastructure and effective

policy support

Innovation and window-dressing

Demand for cleantech innovations (energy

efficiency?)

Optimism regarding the future of entrepreneurship

How collaboration and entrepreneurial education in universities is conducive to the implementation and commercialization of

research-based innovations?

• “Best regions” vs.“regional realism”• Why it is important to make academia more entrepreneurial?

(to improve entr`l capital of RIS or to achieve specific goals?)• Who should be more entrepreneurial – researchers,

students? • What kind of innovations should be developed in a specific

region?• Cross-border/ national/ local cases for AE• How to measure efficiency of promotion of

entrepreneurship?• Factors for innovation & entrepreneurship?

Some issues to consider

Sociotechnical Network

How to involve different audiences in AE?• Make outcomes interesting for different audiences, handbook,

toolkit, web-site, table, course on AE

Workshop itself as a case for AERole of bottom-up initiatives?How to measure outcomes of development of AE?

Some issues to consider (2)

Thank You!Tak! Спасибо!