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University Researchers as Nascent Entrepreneurs: Do They Fit the Stereotype?

In: Technology-Based Nascent Entrepreneurship

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  • Sally Davenport

    (Victoria University of Wellington)

  • Dominik Mann

    (Victoria University of Wellington)

  • Urs Daellenbach

    (Victoria University of Wellington)

Abstract

University researchers are exhorted to be more entrepreneurial, yet whether they display entrepreneurial characteristics, such as risk taking and ambiguity tolerance, is not studied. In this chapter, we compare scientific researchers associated with a national research institute, whom we cast as our potential technology nascent entrepreneurs, with three other groups (MBA and post-graduate students, and actual technical entrepreneurs) along the trait dimension of ambiguity tolerance as a proxy for risk-taking propensity. Our results suggest that researchers are more similar to entrepreneurs than to other groups, such as the broader societal equivalents represented by senior/mature students. We propose that support measures aimed at nurturing hybrid academic-entrepreneur identify formation may be a better approach to developing these nascent entrepreneurs in a university setting, rather than focusing on particular risk tolerance type traits in research scientists.

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  • Sally Davenport & Dominik Mann & Urs Daellenbach, 2017. "University Researchers as Nascent Entrepreneurs: Do They Fit the Stereotype?," Palgrave Advances in Economics of Innovation and Technology, in: James A. Cunningham & Conor O'Kane (ed.), Technology-Based Nascent Entrepreneurship, chapter 0, pages 203-221, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:paiecp:978-1-137-59594-2_9
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59594-2_9
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