Academic entrepreneurship revisited – university scientists and venture creation

Introduction to Academic Entrepreneurship

The aim of the chapter is to provide practitioners and researchers, who wish to investigate academic entrepreneurship in details, with the basic characteristics of the phenomenon as an introduction to further exploration. As university entrepreneurship is rooted in the broader entrepreneurship theory, the investigation encompassed a set of definitions, types, and processes pertaining to both in...

Facilitating Academic Entrepreneurship

Research universities continually struggle with issues related to commercialization of faculty research. Increasingly, they must hire and support faculty conducting cutting-edge science, but also facilitate commercialization of their research. Many universities provide resources to faculty through venture labs and/or entrepreneurial sabbaticals. The topic has been front and center for decades, ...

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Creation of Value

It has increasingly been recognized that appropriate theory based measures are required in entrepreneurial research (Smith, Gannon, & Sapienza, 1989). However to date, the study of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) has principally used input-based measures such as accounting results, which may not provide an accurate picture of the firm’s performance. This study advances the output-based measure ...

Strategic Entrepreneurship, Collaborative Innovation, and Wealth Creation

STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP, COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION, AND WEALTH CREATION DAVID J. KETCHEN, JR.,* R. DUANE IRELAND, and CHARLES C. SNOW Department of Management, College of Business, Auburn University, Auburn Alabama, U.S.A. Department of Management, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.A. Department of Management and Organization, Smeal College of Business, T...

Healthcare Industry Week 2012 Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship Panel