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| Title: | | Approaching the agora: Determinants of scientists' intentions to purse academic entrepreneurship  |
| Authors: | | Goethner, Maximilian Obschonka, Martin Silbereisen, Rainer K. Cantner, Uwe |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2009,079 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | Academic entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial intentions Entrepreneurial scientist University-industry technology transfer Theory of planned behavior Gender |
| JEL: | | L26 O33 O38 I23 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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