Academic entrepreneuring as a long-term commitment to regional development

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Table 1. Academic entrepreneuring as a long-term engagement.

Project	Teaching Small Business Management (A)	Mapping the Industrial District as Collective Entrepreneur-ship (B)	Turning a One-Company Town into a Resilient Community (C)	Enactive Entrepreneurship Research – Creating Cultural and Social Capital (D)
Professional identity	Reflective and caring coach	Critical explorer	Activist and supporter	Academic entrepreneur
Chronologicalorder of university missions	Education Outreach activities Research	Research Outreach activities Education	Outreach activities Research (Education)	Research Education/ Outreach activities
Duration	1975–1994	1976–2007	1979–2021	1999–2019
Motivation for personal long-term commitment	Professional and social exchange with students and entrepreneurs	Curiosity about the local entrepreneurial spirit as complex and institutionalized	Standing up for the community entrepreneur	Modelling entrepreneuring as a practice for the creation of alternative values
Target of critical inquiry	Introvert academic institutions	Self-centred local craftsmen	Autocratic private/ public actors	Scholars in ivory towers
Trust-building activities	Students reporting assignments on site, socializing with entrepreneurs and students	Continuous solicited and spontaneous feedback on research at the location	Submitting to the community entrepreneur and standing up for local interests	Inviting practitioners to advisory boards but personally taking responsibility for outcomes of projects
Critical ‘situations’ dealt with	Standing up for criticized and criticizing students	Initiating and withholding provoking events	Criticizing intervention as well as local action	Standing up for one’s own actions and caring for project participants
Main scholarly outcome	Bridging between declarative and procedural knowledge	Theorizing the industrial district as an organizing context	Laying down the identity of the community entrepreneur	Conceptualizing entrepreneuring as practice and recognizing the researcher as a social-change agent – as ‘entresearcher’

Figure 1. Embodied research into entrepreneuring as practice – from experiential to experimental learning.