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Academic Entrepreneurship: What are the Factors Shaping the Capacity of Academic Researchers to Identify and Exploit Entrepreneurial Opportunities?

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  • Pablo D'Este
  • Surya Mahdi
  • Andy Neely

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This paper aims at improving our understanding of the attributes of academic researchers that influence the capacity to identify and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. We investigate a number of factors highlighted in the literature as influencing the entrepreneurial activities undertaken by academics. Our results show that identification and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities are shaped by different factors. While identification of commercial opportunities is driven by prior entrepreneurial experience and the excellence of the academic work, exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities is driven by the extent of previous collaboration with industry partners, cognitive integration and prior entrepreneurial experience.

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  • Pablo D'Este & Surya Mahdi & Andy Neely, 2010. "Academic Entrepreneurship: What are the Factors Shaping the Capacity of Academic Researchers to Identify and Exploit Entrepreneurial Opportunities?," DRUID Working Papers 10-05, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies.
    • Handle: RePEc:aal:abbswp:10-05
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    1. De Silva, Muthu & Al-Tabbaa, Omar & Pinto, Jonathan, 2023. "Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(2).
    2. Walid A Nakara & Laurent Garnier, 2015. "La stratégie d'accélération du transfert de technologie et les attentes des parties prenantes : une étude empirique dans la région Languedoc-Roussillon," Post-Print hal-02554515, HAL.

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    Academic entrepreneurship; Opportunity identification; Opportunity exploitation; Spin-offs; Patenting; University-business collaboration;
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