ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SPANISH UNIVERSITIES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE DETERMINANTS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION

Francisco Javier Miranda (), Antonio Chamorro-Mera () and Sergio Rubio
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Francisco Javier Miranda: Universidad de Extremadura (Spain)
Antonio Chamorro-Mera: Universidad de Extremadura (Spain)

European Research on Management and Business Economics (ERMBE), 2017, vol. 23, issue 2, 113-122

Abstract: Academic entrepreneurship is the process by which an individual or group of individuals linked through their work to a university or research centre use knowledge created in their research to set up business ventures or spin-offs. With the Theory of Planned Behaviour as basis, the influence of attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived control on academics’ entrepreneurial intentions was studied. The instrument was a survey conducted of 1178 Spanish university academics in various fields of knowledge, professional categories, and levels of seniority in their institution. A structural equation model identified as the main antecedent of entrepreneurial intention the attitude towards entrepreneurship. This was in turn influenced by creativity, perceived utility, and entrepreneurial experience. / 0

Keywords: Academic entrepreneurship; Entrepreneur intention; Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB); Spin-off (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M10 M13 M31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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