How Community Context Impacts the Entrepreneurial Process at Commercialization Challenged Universities

This study compares and contrasts high and low performing universities engaged in entrepreneurial activities. We take a socio-spatial approach to identifying key holistic differences between these two sets. Our findings suggest that the challenges faced by the majority of universities attempting to commercialize research may be difficult to overcome, especially when policy developed by studying exemplar cases is used to guide practices within communities that are contextually dissimilar.