Academic entrepreneurship as a process
Academic entrepreneurship as a process

Author(s): Aleksandra Szulczewska-Remi
Subject(s): Economy, Business Economy / Management, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu
Keywords: academic entrepreneurship;entrepreneurship;knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship;theory of entrepreneurship;
Summary/Abstract: Academic entrepreneurship is the process by which knowledge spills over from universities and other research institutions in order to be commercialised. Because the development of this process model requires a holistic and integrative perspective, the main objective of this chapter was to develop a process model of academic entrepreneurship. Based on a systematic review of academic literature data, 68 articles were selected, out of which 10 papers were further synthesized for the development of a process model so as to understand academic entrepreneurship. It was assumed that this entrepreneurial process consists of opportunities identification coming from university innovation that is perceived as a mechanism for knowledge spillover with regards to knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. These opportunities are leveraged by the entrepreneurial resources and reconfigured to develop entrepreneurial competences according to the theory of entrepreneurship that consequently lead to knowledge and technology commercialisation. In thisway, the proposed process model of academic entrepreneurship presents innovation as created in the university environment and driven by entrepreneurship to create value for knowledgebased economies.

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