1. A Comparative View on
the Role of Academic Entrepreneurship in
Regional Innovations Systems of Oresund and Moscow
Peter Kiryushin, Bala Mulloth, Tatiana Iakovleva
FORFI case workshop of 2012, 14 – 15 June, Oslo

2. About me
• Graduated from: Moscow State University (MSU), Economics
& Crisis management. 2nd degree: Lund University (Sweden)
and Central European University (Hungary)
• Defended PhD; Research Fellow at MSU. Previous research
projects: Business-Government Relations, Changing Behavior,
Energy Oresund
• OECD Workshop on Eco-Innovations, UNESCO Chair
Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education , Changing
Behavior Workshops; internship at Russian Union of Business
Angels; bottom-up initiatives in HEIs
• AE paper accepted to publish at the 7th conference on
Innovation & Entrepreneurship

3. How collaboration and entrepreneurial
education in universities is conducive to the
implementation and commercialization of
research-based innovations?

4. Some issues to consider
• “Best regions” vs. “regional realism”
• Why it is important to make academia more
entrepreneurial? (to improve entr`l capital of RIS or to
achieve specific goals?)
• Who should be more entrepreneurial – researchers,
students?
• What kind of innovations should be developed in a
specific region?
• Cross-border/ national/ local cases for AE
• How to measure efficiency of promotion of
entrepreneurship?
• Factors for innovation & entrepreneurship?

5. Source: IIIEE 2011

7. The value for the AE project
Oresund RIS Moscow RIS
• Academic capacity • Academic capacity
• Scandinavian context • Transition economy
• Cross-border collaboration • Relevant to post soviet
• Leading for cleantech • Need for modernization
• Medicon Valley • Success in the past

10. Step 1: Literature review
on academic entrepreneurship , cross-
border innovation system and cleantech
Step 2: Interviewing
experts in entrepreneurship and innovation,
researchers, business people

11. Literature review
provided generally positive knowledge on
the Öresund RIS development, based on the
studying of the past trends
Interviews
gave the different perspectives. “Pieces of
puzzle”, concerning the current stage and the
future, based on the individual experience,
research results and personal reflections

12. Strategies for
Entrepreneurship cleantech–industry
collaboration Medicon Valley
then and now and gatekeepers
Skepticism about the
future transnational
Öresund
collaboration
Entrepreneurship
Academy and LUIS
Are social innovations
coming?
When networks and
clusters are efficient?
Development of cross-
border relations takes time
Biotech companies moved
to more attractive regions!

13. Stages of cross-border innovation collaboration
1990’s – mid 2000’s: mid 2000’s – nowadays: nowadays – the future:
policy-cooperation, sober view on the “climate-smart region”,
rise of biotech & networking, scientific role of cleantech
pharmaceuticals, and economic results of development and
bridging the sides cooperation entrepreneurship?

14. ÖRESUND LOW-CARBON
Skåne
GOALS
-30% GHG by 2020
(to 1990 level)
Sjælland
-20% GHG by 2020 •Lund
-50% GHG by 2020
(to 1990 level) (to 1990 level)
• Ballerup
•Kristianstad
25% RES by 2015 -20% GHG by 2020
•København (to 1990 level)
carbon-neutral in 2025 •Malmö
100% RES by 2025
•Albertslund
-25% GHG by 2015:

17. (Academic) State demand for
Entrepreneurship innovations in Soviet Old-school
and Russian time (Space, military) researchers and
oligarchs new entrepreneurs
Optimism regarding the
future of entrepreneurship
Who and how
should we teach
Demand for cleantech
innovations (energy
efficiency?)
Importance of personal
relations
Innovation and window-
dressing
Lack of interests,
infrastructure and effective
policy support

19. How collaboration and entrepreneurial
education in universities is conducive to the
implementation and commercialization of
research-based innovations?

20. Some issues to consider
• “Best regions” vs.“regional realism”
• Why it is important to make academia more
entrepreneurial? (to improve entr`l capital of RIS or to
achieve specific goals?)
• Who should be more entrepreneurial – researchers,
students?
• What kind of innovations should be developed in a
specific region?
• Cross-border/ national/ local cases for AE
• How to measure efficiency of promotion of
entrepreneurship?
• Factors for innovation & entrepreneurship?

21. Sociotechnical Network

22. Some issues to consider (2)
How to involve different audiences in AE?
• Make outcomes interesting for different audiences, handbook,
toolkit, web-site, table, course on AE
Workshop itself as a case for AE
Role of bottom-up initiatives?
How to measure outcomes of development of AE?

23. Thank You!
Tak! Спасибо!