Academic entrepreneurship

Jukka Moilanen

Chapter 2 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management, 2025, pp 7-9 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Academic entrepreneurship (AE) traditionally refers to the commercialisation of knowledge through patents, licensing, spinoffs and contract research. Recent studies have expanded the definition to include entrepreneurial culture, student entrepreneurship and university-stakeholder alignment. AE has been extensively studied at the macro and meso levels, and more recent studies have examined micro-level activities by university-trained experts and their teams. This approach underscores AE as a social process that focuses on actions, interactions and sensemaking among individuals and teams. The social process approach explores how individuals and groups engage in AE, particularly during its early stages, when academics begin entrepreneurial activities while still in academia. A common theme in the approach is the difference between the worlds of business and academia. This entry highlights this theme by examining how tensions arise from the identity challenges, ethical dilemmas and competence judgements faced by academic entrepreneurs and by considering how those tensions may be resolved.

Keywords: Academic Entrepreneurship; Social Process; Sensemaking; Commercialisation; University Spin-Off (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306442
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