PATHWAYS TO INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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© 2025 | Data di Pubblicazione: 20 Settembre 2025
Addressing Europe’s innovation gap, this book argues that entrepreneurship education - when designed as a participatory, transdisciplinary, and place-sensitive practice - can transform universities into enablers of inclusive regional ecosystems. Mo…
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Chapter 1 Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A Regional Ecosystem Lens
Chapter 2 Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Moderately Innovative Regions
Chapter 3 Bridging Academia and Industry: Comparative Models of Entrepreneurship Education
Chapter 4 A Learning Journey from Left-Behind Places to Frontier Ecosystems
Chapter 5 An Entrepreneurship Education Model for Inclusive Innovation
Chapter 6 From Technology Transfer to University-Led Innovation and Entrepreneurship Policy.
Chapter 2 Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Moderately Innovative Regions
Chapter 3 Bridging Academia and Industry: Comparative Models of Entrepreneurship Education
Chapter 4 A Learning Journey from Left-Behind Places to Frontier Ecosystems
Chapter 5 An Entrepreneurship Education Model for Inclusive Innovation
Chapter 6 From Technology Transfer to University-Led Innovation and Entrepreneurship Policy.
Addressing Europe’s innovation gap, this book argues that entrepreneurship education - when designed as a participatory, transdisciplinary, and place-sensitive practice - can transform universities into enablers of inclusive regional ecosystems. Moving beyond linear models of technology transfer, it develops a framework that links higher education, innovation policy, and territorial development. Drawing on Southern Italy as a strategic observatory for peripheral regions of Europe and beyond, the book blends theoretical reflection, empirical research, and policy analysis. Part I (Chapters 1-3) introduces the conceptual tools for diagnosing both the structural gaps and the latent opportunities in the interaction between universities and moderately innovative regions. Part II (Chapters 4-6) turns to experimentation, presenting the Pathways to Innovation and Entrepreneurship initiative- a collaboration between the University of Naples Federico II and Cornell Tech, supported by the US Diplomatic Mission to Italy. This initiative fostered innovation competencies, transdisciplinary learning, and applied research for place-based development. By advancing a glocal model of ecosystem development, the book provides fresh insights for students and scholars in innovation studies, regional science and public policy. The book also addresses national and international decision- makers, regional development actors, university leaders, managers of technology transfer, and entrepreneurship education seeking to convert global innovation challenges into local opportunities for economic renewal, social inclusion, and democratic engagement.
Mita Marra is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Naples, Italy, and Visiting Fellow at the Cañada-Blanch Centre, London School of Economics (2025 -2026). She previously served as Visiting Professor of Comparative Public Policy at George Washington University (2016 -2021) and taught in the World Bank IPDET program at Carleton University (2014 -2016) and at Maastricht University (2006). Her research focuses on the evaluation of innovation policies, with particular attention to the role of universities in regional innovation ecosystems and the assessment of public governance reforms. She holds a BA in Economics from the University of Naples (1995), an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS (1998), and a PhD in Public Policy from George Washington University (2003). She has acted as consultant to the World Bank, UNDP, FAO, IFAD, the European Commission, and Italian regional governments. She is Co- Editor-in-Chief of Evaluation and Program Planning, serves on the boards of the European Evaluation Society and the International Evaluation Academy, and is Past President of the Italian Evaluation Association.
Mita Marra is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Naples, Italy, and Visiting Fellow at the Cañada-Blanch Centre, London School of Economics (2025 -2026). She previously served as Visiting Professor of Comparative Public Policy at George Washington University (2016 -2021) and taught in the World Bank IPDET program at Carleton University (2014 -2016) and at Maastricht University (2006). Her research focuses on the evaluation of innovation policies, with particular attention to the role of universities in regional innovation ecosystems and the assessment of public governance reforms. She holds a BA in Economics from the University of Naples (1995), an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS (1998), and a PhD in Public Policy from George Washington University (2003). She has acted as consultant to the World Bank, UNDP, FAO, IFAD, the European Commission, and Italian regional governments. She is Co- Editor-in-Chief of Evaluation and Program Planning, serves on the boards of the European Evaluation Society and the International Evaluation Academy, and is Past President of the Italian Evaluation Association.