From Human Capital to Social Capital: A Longitudinal Study of Technology–Based Academic Entrepreneurs

By Simon Mosey, Mike Wright. 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Entrepreneurial potential: The role of human and cultural capitals (2014, background): “Email: dilanij@liverpool.ac.uk (Mosey and Wright, 2007; Rae and Carswell, 2001; Serneels, 2008; Shrader and Siegel, 2007).”
Scientists’ transition to academic entrepreneurship: Economic and psychological determinants (2012, background): “…models have developed separately from social capital models, in the academic entrepreneurship context the two theoretical approaches are not easily disentangled (Mosey & Wright, 2007), suggesting that both should have a significant bearing on the entrepreneurial career decision among scientists.”
Export propensity, export intensity and firm performance: The role of the entrepreneurial founding team (2012, background): “…and advice about foreign markets, leading to the identification and successful exploitation of foreign market opportunities and enhanced firm performance (Davidsson and Honig, 2003; Mosey and Wright, 2007; Mosey et al, 2006; Bosma et al 2004; Yli-Renko et al, 2002; Marvel and Lumpkin, 2007).”
Conceptualizing academic entrepreneurship ecosystems: a review, analysis and extension of the literature (2018, positive): “Nicolaou and Birley (2003a) create a categorization of social networks among spinoff founders while Mosey and Wright (2007) examine challenges within networks related to spinoff development among academic entrepreneurs.”
Dynamics of Science-based entrepreneurship (2010, background): “Mosey and Wright (2007) observe that the nature of social capital may be associated with the degree of prior entrepreneurial experience by scientists, with habitual entrepreneurs developing more external commercial social networks, while nascent academic entrepreneurs have more restricted social ne”
The Effectiveness of University Knowledge Spillovers: Performance Differences between University Spinoffs and Corporate Spinoffs (2011, background): “Case study evidence from USO entrepreneurs indicates that prior experience of owning a business enables them to learn to build relationships with experienced managers and potential equity investors (Mosey and Wright, 2007).”
Unraveling the “passion orchestra” in academia (2016, background): “shown to affect the likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur (Mosey and Wright, 2007).”
Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? (2018, positive): “Trust is frequently invoked as an underlying mechanism that smooths resource transfers when entrepreneurial resource mobilization is based on social network ties (Mosey & Wright, 2007; Zheng, 2012).”
Returnee Entrepreneurs, Science Park Location Choice and Performance: An Analysis of High–Technology SMEs in China (2007, background): “There is some evidence that habitual entrepreneurs utilize ties with researchers in universities to recognize a greater number of opportunities than novice or nascent entrepreneurs (Mosey & Wright, 2006).”
Academic Entrepreneurship: Time for a Rethink? (2015, neutral): “…2006); and resource based and entrepreneurial orientation theories applied to the resources and capabilities required in both TTOs and spin-offs (e.g., Lockett and Wright, 2005; Mosey and Wright, 2007; O’Shea, Allen and Chevalier, 2005; Powers and McDougall, 2005; Rasmussen et al., 2011, 2014).”
Entrepreneurial practices in research-intensive and teaching-led universities (2016, background): “Amongst important normative influences can be ‘‘role models’’ (Krueger et al. 2000), represented by academics, who have prior entrepreneurial experiences (Mosey and Wright 2007; O’Shea et al. 2007).”