Entrepreneurial universities inclusive perspective: Does it trigger social innovation process and entrepreneurship?

Abstract

This paper addressed an overview of the Entrepreneurial Universities Inclusive perspective in the era of globalization and socio-scientific innovation research. This conceptual paper builds a framework to explore and investigate the impression of entrepreneurial universities, enabling factors that foster social innovation and social entrepreneurship development in order to create and sustain social value. Moreover, this research intends to classify the style-the entrepreneurial universities are now recognizing their prominence as an incubator of a social innovation process that triggers the emergence of social entrepreneurship mindset. Since, the distinctive challenges of entrepreneurial universities are persistently pursuing new opportunities to swear out the university's mission; engaging in a process of continuous innovation, adaptation and learning that facilitate to run across the societal challenges and technological break. Therefore, this paper argues that it is important to understand the supports of entrepreneurial universities in the society that flows through the unique tacit knowledge in order to make an indispensable contribution to encouraging knowledge based urban development. Consequently, it activates the key driving forces of the social innovation process and its impact on the entrepreneurial innovation system, entrepreneurial skill development and social entrepreneurship. The main purpose of this paper is to exemplify, how does entrepreneurial development process can foster social innovation and social entrepreneurship. Thus, it mainly highlighted that it is important to understand the correlation of entrepreneurial universities empowering activities that deliberate innovation -driven economic growth, exceptional implicit knowledge that materializes the concept of social innovation process and contributes to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). © 2020 Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited. All rights reserved.