The Effect of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations on Academics’ Entrepreneurial Intention

By D. Antonioli, F. Nicolli, Laura Ramaciotti, Ugo Rizzo. 2016

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This work investigates entrepreneurial intentions among academic scientists. Drawing from the literature on entrepreneurial behavior, it contributes to delineate the differences in motivations that are correlated with entrepreneurial intention to those that are considered to be linked to entrepreneurial behaviors. By disentangling the concept of motivations in its ultimately basic constructs of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, we investigate how these two different types of motivations are related to the formation of entrepreneurial intention at the level of academic scientists. Through a survey conducted at the University of Ferrara—one of the leading universities in Italy in terms of technology transfer and scientific production—findings reveal that while academic entrepreneurial intention seems to be mostly driven by intrinsic motivations, the effect of extrinsic motivations, which are regarded as a main antecedent of entrepreneurial behavior among scientists, are largely mediated by academic positions, work environment and different combinations of these two factors. This work therefore highlights the importance of social norms in the investigation of entrepreneurial intention in academia.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Individual entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention: The mediating role of entrepreneurial motivations (2021, background): “Other studies have shown that entrepreneurial motivations act as a determining factor in the development of EI – for example, Nabi and Liñán (2013); Solesvik (2013); Antonioli et al. (2016); Barba-Sánchez and Atienza-Sahuquillo (2017) and Lang and Liu (2019).”
Entrepreneurial mindset: Dispositional beliefs, opportunity beliefs, and entrepreneurial behavior (2021, background): “Further, individual motivations—be they intrinsic, extrinsic (Antonioli et al., 2016), or prosocial—are likely to influence EM, in particular when considering opportunities closely aligned with a person’s interests and motivations (Germak & Robinson, 2014; Milanesi, 2018).”