This six month project examined the role and impacts of the university-led entrepreneurial ecosystem, operating in major European universities and their city or local regional hinterlands. Taking London, Cambridge and Oxford as three major UK university-led entrepreneurial ecosystems, the study developed an approach for measuring activities and impacts across Europe’s top performing entrepreneurial, science and technology universities, using this to create close and helpful comparators. Drawing on a shortlist of comparator cases, these were qualitatively assessed through a series of key informant interviews and further background data to reveal greater understanding of good practice university operations and the processes by which research and teaching is translated into local industry impacts.
