Twentieth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Science

Abstract

The identification of activities and indicators of intellectual capital in relation to entrepreneurship and innovation is considered relevant to contribute to the third university mission, which guarantees the transfer, but also the renewal and updating of knowledge, and the generation of value. From a phased study and from a qualitative approach, based on the methodological sequence of selection of cases reported in the literature, in addition to interviews with managers of the institutions that perform prediction, interpretation of theories and meanings for the construction of guidelines that allow the updating of models of intellectual capital in relation to entrepreneurship and innovation, contextualised in higher education. Interviews with managers highlight the need for links with the productive sector, as well as the design of public policies that reduce barriers and strengthen trust for the development of joint projects with funding. Indicators associated with flexibility for labour reconversion, actions to capitalise on the knowledge of industry, linkage to business activities in learning, tools for training as citizens and future entrepreneurs, as well as measuring university entrepreneurship through technology transfer, are highlighted, university-business collaboration, involvement in entrepreneurship education, the role of the entrepreneurial university, the competence framework for entrepreneurial training and in response to the needs of the productive sector, entrepreneurial culture and behaviour, access to finance, entrepreneurial propensity and experiential learning.