Academic Entrepreneurship in the Creative Arts

Maria Abreu and Vadim Grinevich
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Maria Abreu: Department of Land Economy and Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1RF, England
Vadim Grinevich: Southampton Management School, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, England

Environment and Planning C, 2014, vol. 32, issue 3, 451-470

Abstract: The extensive literature on academic entrepreneurship has focused almost entirely on science and engineering, while little is known about the extent of it in other disciplines, most notably the creative arts. We analyse the context, motivations, and variety of academic entrepreneurship in the creative arts using a recently completed survey of UK academics, providing microdata on 1108 academics. The data are complemented using institutional data taken from the Higher Education–Business and Community Interaction Survey, and data on individual submissions to the Research Assessment Exercise 2008. We highlight four characteristics of academic environment in the creative arts that strongly influence the nature of the entrepreneurship in the field: the practice-based nature of the research; the role of networks, particularly networks linked to teaching; the importance on nonmonetary rewards; and the role of geography. Our results indicate that academic entrepreneurship in the creative arts is varied and extensive, and that it could be better supported by policy.

Keywords: academic entrepreneurship; creative arts; university–business links; knowledge exchange (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1068/c11144r

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