Title: Entrepreneurial coping strategies: an agent-based model in university-business collaboration

Authors: Firmansyah David

Addresses: Faculty of Industrial Technology, Department of Information Technology, Institut Teknologi Padang, Jalan Gajah Mada Kandis Nanggalo Padang, 25143, Indonesia

Abstract: This study simulates the coping strategies taken by academics and professionals when they are situated within two contradicting institutional logics. By using the Prisoner's Dilemma as the study framework, the simulation sets scenarios and combinations of coping strategies to seek out which strategies result in more benefit. The results suggest that even though a defective strategy exists in the system, the cooperative pay-offs remain high. The author validates the results with an empirical study using two types of universities - private and public.

Keywords: academics; conflicting logics; agent based; entrepreneurships; hybrids; institutions; strategies; dilemma.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTE.2017.091023

International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship, 2017 Vol.3 No.4, pp.330 - 345

Received: 17 Aug 2017
Accepted: 23 Jan 2018
Published online: 06 Apr 2018 *

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