Organizing Academic Entrepreneurship Drawing on Cultural Knowledge: The puntOorg Experience

This chapter presents the case of puntOorg International Research Network to reflect on the issues of cultural entrepreneurship and academic entrepreneurship, especially in the light of University reforms that reframed the role of professors and researchers working in Academia, as well as the rules of the game of academic publishing. After having described the relationship between academic entrepreneurship and cultural production, and after having introduced the Italian academic context, we present the case of puntOorg, which is described as an illustrative example of a not-ordinary way of being academic entrepreneurs. We describe the praxis of puntOorg, as it is crystallized in its intra- and interdisciplinary research practices, and we also describe its intellectual outcome, as reified in different publications.