ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: VALIDATION OF THE SCALE IN TURKEY

Year 2017, , 350 - 358, 30.06.2017

Ufuk Gur

https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2017.610

Abstract

Academic
entrepreneurship is defined as entrepreneurial activities engaged by faculty in
order to commercialize research results and deliver societal and economic
benefits. It is closely related to the “Entrepreneurial University” which
extends the mission of universities beyond teaching and research. Higher
education institutions and their affiliated faculty members in sciences and
engineering disciplines are important actors of innovation ecosystems. This
study investigates academic entrepreneurial intentions distinguished by soft
level intentions (industry collaboration) and hard level intentions (spin-off
formation). The data was collected between December 2015, and March 2016 from a
national online survey of Turkish academics in science and engineering faculties
at approximately 90 universities of which 402 full responses were gathered.
Major methodology included multivariate analysis technique namely as Structural
Equation Modelling. Within the scope of this study, the constructs of academic
entrepreneurship intentions were created and applied comprehensively in
sciences and engineering disciplines in Turkey for the first time.  

Keywords

Academic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial university, technology transfer, innovation, entrepreneurship

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