Entrepreneurship and Academic Employment – More Alike than You’d Think
Recognising the increasing value of knowledge and technology transfer, the scientific and political communities in Germany have recently devoted much attention to academic entrepreneurship. Seeking to explore similarities and differences between academic employment and entrepreneurship, we intervie...
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Recognising the increasing value of knowledge and technology transfer, the scientific and political communities in Germany have recently devoted much attention to academic entrepreneurship. Seeking to explore similarities and differences between academic employment and entrepreneurship, we interviewed 112 postdoctoral students from the four major German research organisations and 16 senior transfer managers whose responsibilities included spin-off facilitation.
Our findings indicate that those involved in such occupations often believe that academic employment and entrepreneurship differ substantially on many levels. Both interviewed senior managers and postdoctoral students considered engaging in commercialisation activities to be a risky and serious undertaking and a significant career change. Simultaneously, the opinions and observations of postdoctoral students helped us identify a wide range of similarities between academic employment and entrepreneurship. Our findings can help make entrepreneurship more accessible to researchers, re-define the boundaries between scientific and commercial activities, and, ultimately, foster knowledge and technology transfer.
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| spelling | doaj.art-a01c5767eaa84cf0a9241e04053ac7fa2023-04-11T20:00:27ZengUniversidad Alberto HurtadoJournal of Technology Management & Innovation0718-27242015-10-0110310.4067/S0718-27242015000300001969Entrepreneurship and Academic Employment – More Alike than You’d ThinkAnna Sinell0Marie Heidingsfelder1Martina Schraudner2Fraunhofer Center for Respnsible Research and InnovationFraunhofer Center for Respnsible Research and InnovationFraunhofer Center for Respnsible Research and Innovation Recognising the increasing value of knowledge and technology transfer, the scientific and political communities in Germany have recently devoted much attention to academic entrepreneurship. Seeking to explore similarities and differences between academic employment and entrepreneurship, we interviewed 112 postdoctoral students from the four major German research organisations and 16 senior transfer managers whose responsibilities included spin-off facilitation. Our findings indicate that those involved in such occupations often believe that academic employment and entrepreneurship differ substantially on many levels. Both interviewed senior managers and postdoctoral students considered engaging in commercialisation activities to be a risky and serious undertaking and a significant career change. Simultaneously, the opinions and observations of postdoctoral students helped us identify a wide range of similarities between academic employment and entrepreneurship. Our findings can help make entrepreneurship more accessible to researchers, re-define the boundaries between scientific and commercial activities, and, ultimately, foster knowledge and technology transfer. https://www.jotmi.org/index.php/GT/article/view/1824Academic spin-offentrepreneurshipknowledge transferparadigms of (German) academia |
| spellingShingle | Anna Sinell Marie Heidingsfelder Martina Schraudner Entrepreneurship and Academic Employment – More Alike than You’d Think Journal of Technology Management & Innovation Academic spin-off entrepreneurship knowledge transfer paradigms of (German) academia |
| title | Entrepreneurship and Academic Employment – More Alike than You’d Think |
| title_full | Entrepreneurship and Academic Employment – More Alike than You’d Think |
| title_fullStr | Entrepreneurship and Academic Employment – More Alike than You’d Think |
| title_full_unstemmed | Entrepreneurship and Academic Employment – More Alike than You’d Think |
| title_short | Entrepreneurship and Academic Employment – More Alike than You’d Think |
| title_sort | entrepreneurship and academic employment more alike than you d think |
| topic | Academic spin-off entrepreneurship knowledge transfer paradigms of (German) academia |
| url | https://www.jotmi.org/index.php/GT/article/view/1824 |
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