A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Peter Kiryushin, Bala Mulloth and Tatiana Iakovleva
approach as Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy. The other project is SKJ Center for
Entrepreneurship, which started its activities in 2011 at Lund University. It provides 14 different
courses on entrepreneurship at the different departments. Moreover, the center has a special
international master program, which is combined with development of business ventures using the
research ideas, provided by Lund University Innovation System (LUIS), technology transfer office
(Bogsjö 2012). Students could also choose another track and practice corporate entrepreneurship in
the companies (Löwegren 2012).
4.4 Technology transfer and students-driven initiatives
It seems that lack of business tradition when a company contacts university, could be a barrier for
development of technology transfer in Øresund (Olsson 2012; Velander 2012). Therefore technology
transfer offices such as LUIS at Lund University have to promote themselves among the businesses.
There is also an alternative approach to provide research-based innovations to industry directly,
through the personal networks of researchers. For example, that is how Bluetooth technology was
developed (Olsson 2012). Interdisciplinary research centers, which consists of natural, social
scientists and investors, seem to have greater potential for development new technologies comparing
to mono-disciplinary departments, since such centers have more “stimulating environment” (Bogsjö
2012). Another issue for academic entrepreneurship is how to mix researchers with entrepreneurs.
Students seem to be more entrepreneurial than faculty, in particular, because they more willing to
take a risk. Moreover it is considered that many of the university people have hidden capacity to
compete and become entrepreneurs. Therefore, the task of such organizations as LUIS is to realize
this capacity (“How we could get people running?” [Bogsjö 2012]).
There is a tendency for the increasing number of research-based innovations, which are not related to
natural science, but related to social sciences. It significantly extends the magnitude and possibility to
involve academia and students in promotion of research-based cleantech innovations (Olsson 2012).
In addition, social and sustainability innovations seem to have potential (Olsson 2012; Bogsjö 2012).
Although students-driven initiatives in universities are usually underestimated, such initiatives could
be effective for promotion of the academic entrepreneurship. Green Campus of University of
Copenhagen showed a good example of how students and faculty collaborate for the purpose to
decrease energy consumption and, therefore, lowering CO2 emission. It assumes development of
changing behavior (social innovation) and implementation of cleantech innovations, supplied from the
external company (Jørgensen 2012). The GRØN DYST competition as an as the case of the initiative
for partnering students and faculty, alumni and other audiences’ with the purpose of the project is to
develop engineering education in Danish Technical University (DTU) in order to support sustainable
and low-carbon development (Balyk 2012).
An interesting case for the development of cleantech solution and promotion of academic
entrepreneurship is utilized in the DTU in collaboration with Copenhagen Business School. These
universities took part in the international competition called Solar Decathlon. The purpose of the
project is to develop the plus-energy house, which produces enough energy to meet in-house
demand and supply it to the grid (Dudareva 2012). Another approach for the academic
entrepreneurship is utilized by the Hallbart Universitet, sustainability students group and Lund
University. The purpose of the group is to raise awareness and develop environmental projects such
as environmental festivals, sustainable city tours, movie screening, etc (Horn 2012). Although such
initiatives don’t directly relate to cleantech, environmental awareness within the university could be an
important for increasing demand for cleantech.
4.5 Current and future stages of Øresund RIS development
There were a lot of expectations regarding the interregional integration after the construction of
Øresund Bridge in 2000, but the current results are less than it was initially expected. It could be
associated with the fact that social networking and economic cooperation take time (Hansen 2012;
Steenstrup 2012). Some of the most prominent integration achievements so far are related to creation
of more favorable legislation for cross-border citizenship, employment opportunities as well as
economic and social benefits that result from different and complimentary competences of the sides
(Steenstrup 2012). At the same time it seems that construction of the bridge didn’t affect that much
scientific collaboration (Hansen 2012).
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