HOW DO ACADEMICS CHANGE THEIR WAY OF WORK AFTER THEY BECOME ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURS?

摘要

Using a data set of 98 academic entrepreneurs employed at three different European universities, namely University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands), and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), this paper investigates how academics change their way of work, in terms of cooperation with the industry, patent activities, publication of scientific papers and research activities, after they become academic entrepreneurs. The paper shows that academic entrepreneurs that have established their own companies are statistically significant more involved in consulting to companies then prior the establishment of their own firms. Moreover, academic entrepreneurs do spend statistically significant more time for projects which are ordered by the industry and are also statistically significant more involved in industry-related projects than prior the firm creation. Additionally, the paper indicates an interesting result regarding the type of research academic entrepreneurs have been involved in after they have established their own companies. That is, academic entrepreneurs are statistically significant more involved in applied research and statistically less involved in basic research after the establishment of own firms than before the establishment of their own firms. Contrary, we did not find statistically significant differences on patent activities and publishing of papers before and after the establishing of a company.