University induced healthcare entrepreneurship cluster

Abstract

With no clear blueprints available to build clusters, policy makers struggle for tools, processes and mechanisms to build the clusters that provide competitive and comparative advantages for their economies. This paper explore the challenges and requirements for universities to catalyze healthcare entrepreneurship clusters within their economy. The researchers conduct semi structured interviews with senior decision makers in key institutions that would naturally be a member of such clusters in order to derive the requirements and the impediments to creating them. The interviews result in an overarching sentiment that universities cannot induce such a cluster without close cooperation with their academic hospitals and that entities from across the triple helix must be engaged in cluster formation. The thesis findings form the basis to creating a blueprint for healthcare entrepreneurship clusters creation.