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Academic leadership and commercial activities at research institutes: German evidence

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  • Rajeev K. Goel
  • Devrim Göktepe†Hultén

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This paper focuses on entrepreneurship by academic leaders. With the use of patents, inventions, and spin†offs to measure commercialization, and directors, research group leaders, and business owners as academic leaders, results, using a sample of more than 2,500 German researchers, show differences across academic leaders and commercialization. Findings for spin†offs are different from those for patents and inventions. Academic leaders in sciences were more likely to commercialize. Doctoral degrees helped patents by business owners and spin†offs by group leaders, whereas female business owners and female group leaders faced challenges patenting and inventing, respectively. For business owners, age increased the likelihood of patenting but lowered spin†offs.

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  • Rajeev K. Goel & Devrim Göktepe†Hultén, 2018. "Academic leadership and commercial activities at research institutes: German evidence," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 39(5), pages 601-609, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:mgtdec:v:39:y:2018:i:5:p:601-609
    DOI: 10.1002/mde.2932
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    1. João Ricardo Faria & Rajeev K. Goel & Devrim Göktepe-Hultén, 2022. "Factors facilitating the inventing academics transition from nascent entrepreneurs to business owners," Chapters, in: David E. Audretsch & Erik B. Lehmann & Albert N. Link (ed.), Handbook of Technology Transfer, chapter 5, pages 75-102, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Dirk Dohse & Rajeev K. Goel & Devrim Göktepe‐Hultén, 2021. "Paths academic scientists take to entrepreneurship: Disaggregating direct and indirect influences," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 42(7), pages 1740-1753, October.

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