Academic Entrepreneurship: Time for a Rethink?

By Donald S. Siegel, Mike Wright. 2015

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Academic entrepreneurship, which refers to efforts undertaken by universities to promote commercialization on campus and in surrounding regions of the university, has changed dramatically in recent years. Two key consequences of this change are that more stakeholders have become involved in academic entrepreneurship and that universities have become more ‘strategic’ in their approach to this activity. The authors assert that the time is ripe to rethink academic entrepreneurship. Specifically, theoretical and empirical research on academic entrepreneurship needs to take account of these changes, so as to improve the rigour and relevance of future studies on this topic. We outline such a framework and provide examples of key research questions that need to be addressed to broaden understanding of academic entrepreneurship.

Subfields: Education, Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations

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The emerging role of university spin-off companies in developing regional entrepreneurial university ecosystems: The case of Andalusia (2019, background): “Consequently, the aim of this paper is to understand the intermediary role of the UVCs in developing EUs, as determinant of the USOs success in the long run, in the context of regional EUEs.”
The Climate for Entrepreneurship at Higher Education Institutions (2018, background): “However, increasingly these measures also focus on students (Mok, 2005; Siegel and Wright, 2015).”
The Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention of Young Researchers: Combining the Theory of Planned Behavior with the Triple Helix Model (2019, background): “…the increased attention on the issue of academic entrepreneurship (Clarysse, Tartari, and Salter 2011; Fini et al. 2011; Meoli and Vismara 2016; Siegel and Wright 2015), only a few studies devote explicit attention to the determinants of academic entrepreneurial intention (AEI) (Prodan and…”
Mission impossible? Entrepreneurial universities and peripheral regional innovation systems (2016, background): “Introduction A key assumption underlying most regional innovation policies is that universities are crucial “entrepreneurial actors” (Huggins et al, 2008; Power and Malmberg, 2008; Audretsch, 2014; Siegel and Wright, 2015).”
The entrepreneurial university as driver for economic growth and social change - Key strategic challenges (2019, background): “Although more pertinent, the areas of leadership, governance, and the broader design issues of contextual fit with the environment have been largely ignored (Siegel and Leih, 2018; Rinaldi et al. 2018; Siegel and Wright, 2015).”
Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of the literature on university–industry collaborations (2017, background): “Recently, an excellent outlook on future academic entrepreneurship research has been drawn by Siegel and Wright (2015), to which we refer the interested reader.”
Academic entrepreneurship in Spanish universities: an analysis of the determinants of entrepreneurial intention (2017, background): “…activity of universities (parents, licences, spin-off) and analysing the initiatives that could influence the effectiveness of this activity (Siegel & Wright, 2015), in recent years there has been an increase in attempts to analyze the factors that lead academics to exhibit entrepreneurial…”
University support and the creation of technology and non-technology academic spin-offs (2016, background): “Moreover, the number of very successful academic spin-offs is fairly limited (Bonardo et al. 2011; Siegel and Wright 2015).”
What makes student entrepreneurs? On the relevance (and irrelevance) of the university and the regional context for student start-ups (2016, background): “Given the increasing focus on student entrepreneurship in university support policies (Siegel & Wright, 2015), we should know how big the ‘room for manoeuvre’ in this regard is.”