Re-Building University Capabilities Public Policy and Managerial Implications to Innovation and Technology

Although most universities could be considered bureaucrat organizations, the accumulated knowledge reveals that universities try to adapt their core activities and technological innovation processes to face the current socio-economic challenges. This book explores the ways in which universities have re-built multiple capabilities to support the development of applied innovation and manage new technologies. Concretely, this book (1) theoretically addresses the university managers’ view for re-building university capabilities due to the public policy agendas demands; and (2) empirically addresses the documentation of experiences and strategies adopted by universities in different contexts to achieve public policy agendas. These universities strategies include re-build entrepreneurial, innovative, digital, and sustainable capabilities. This book encourages researchers, scholars, academics, students and policy makers to re-think how universities are expanding equal opportunities relatedto high-quality higher education, innovative/entrepreneurial graduate options, and contributing to sustainable societal advance and well-being through research and community engagement.

Maribel Guerrero, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, School of Public Affairs and Global Center for Technology Transfer (Arizona State University). She is the director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM-Chile, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile) and an affiliated member of the CIRCLE – Centre for Innovation Research (Lund University, Sweden). Her main research interests are the public policy and managerial implications of entrepreneurship, technology transfer, innovation, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Dr. Guerrero serves on editorial boards: Small Business Economics Journal (Editor), Journal of Technology Transfer (Associate Editor), Journal of Small Business Management (Associate Editor), Research Policy (Advisory Board), and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (Reviewer Board). Dr. Guerrero also serves on the AOM Entrepreneurship Division Executive Committee (re-elected treasurer 2018-2024), the  Cartier Women's Initiative jury in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Technology Transfer Society.