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Mobility and Academic Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Analysis of Japanese Scientists

In: University Evolution, Entrepreneurial Activity and Regional Competitiveness

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  • Satoko Yasuda

    (Kwansei Gakuin University)

Abstract

This study examines whether the mobility of university scientists enhances academic entrepreneurship at the individual level by examining scientists’ career paths. It draws on a theoretical framework concerning the factors that enable entrepreneurs to recognize opportunities. A new set of data comprising credible and wide-ranging information facilitated the empirical analyses of more than 500 scientists holding full-time positions at the University of Tokyo. First, the study distinguishes between Japanese academic entrepreneurs (AEs), who recognized the opportunities offered in Japanese academia from 1998 to 2004, and non-AEs, who did not. It then compares the career paths of AEs and non-AEs, highlighting three kinds of mobility: job mobility, sector mobility, and international mobility. The result of the probit analysis clearly shows that both job mobility and international mobility are positively related to enhanced entrepreneurship among Japanese scientists, whereas sector mobility is not. A brief discussion of the results follows. This paper concludes that mobility—the experience of moving beyond boundaries—enables Japanese scientists to access the resources, learn the skills, and acquire the entrepreneurial traits that enhance their academic entrepreneurship.

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  • Satoko Yasuda, 2016. "Mobility and Academic Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Analysis of Japanese Scientists," International Studies in Entrepreneurship, in: David Audretsch & Erik Lehmann & Michele Meoli & Silvio Vismara (ed.), University Evolution, Entrepreneurial Activity and Regional Competitiveness, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 27-47, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:inschp:978-3-319-17713-7_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-17713-7_2
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    1. 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.
    2. Pedro Aceituno-Aceituno & Joaquín Danvila-del-Valle & Abel González García & Carlos Bousoño-Calzón, 2021. "Scientific Mobility, Training and Entrepreneurial Skills in Health Sciences: The Spanish Case," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(4), pages 1-22, February.
    3. Pedro Aceituno-Aceituno & Joaquín Danvila-del-Valle & Abel González García & Carlos Bousoño-Calzón, 2018. "Entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and scientific mobility: The Spanish case," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(9), pages 1-20, September.
    4. Gokhan Aykac, 2021. "The value of an overseas research trip," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(8), pages 7097-7122, August.

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