The Entrepreneurial Intentions of Academic Scientist-Inventors
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC) 2005
Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2005
14 Pages Posted: 26 Nov 2012
Abstract
The creation of spinoffs by academic-inventors stimulates economic development and develops state-of-the-art technology (Shane, 2004). In this exploratory study, we examine why academicinventors commercialize inventions through the creation of a start-up. Drawing on data from a sample of 327 surveys of scientist-inventors from seven major universities around the U.S., we explore the relationship between inventors’ motivations to file an invention disclosure (ID) and their intentions to start a spinoff, among other variables. Social motivations had the strongest relationship with intention to start. However, neither research reputation nor institutional context was related to this intention.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
JEL Classification: M13
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