@techreport{Goethner2009Approaching,
abstract = {This study investigates predictors of scientists' intentions to commercialize their research through business founding. Analyzing a cross-sectional sample of 496 German scientists, we develop and test an intentions-based model of academic entrepreneurship combining personal and contextual factors. Empirical results demonstrate that intentions to start a science-based new venture are shaped by some personal characteristics (i.e., personal attitudes toward research commercialization, entrepreneurial control-beliefs, entrepreneurial self-identity, and prior entrepreneurial experience). Moreover, we find that the research context itself - i.e., normative influences of academic workplace peers - does not show a strong direct effect on entrepreneurial intentions. Moderator analyses deliver that peers have an influence primarily by person-context interactions via scientists' sense of identification with these peers. A mediation analysis further indicates that gender-related differences in entrepreneurial control-beliefs might help explain the widely-observed low proportion of female scientist-entrepreneurs.},
address = {Jena},
author = {Maximilian Goethner and Martin Obschonka and Rainer K. Silbereisen and Uwe Cantner},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {L26; O33; O38; I23; 330; Academic entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial intentions; Entrepreneurial scientist; University-industry technology transfer; Theory of planned behavior; Gender; Wissenschaftler; Unternehmer; Unternehmensgr\"{u}ndung; Pers\"{o}nlichkeitspsychologie; Forschungskooperation; Geschlecht; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {2009,079},
publisher = {Univ. [u.a.]},
title = {Approaching the agora: Determinants of scientists' intentions to purse academic entrepreneurship},
type = {Jena economic research papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/32598},
year = {2009}
}
