Why do academic scientists participate in academic entrepreneurship? An empirical investigation of department context and the antecedents of entrepreneurial behavior

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Miao Wang ◽  
Jianfeng Cai ◽  
Danny Soetanto ◽  
Ying Guo
Keyword(s):  
Academic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behavior ◽  
Academic Scientists

scholarly journals Scientist or Entrepreneur? Identity centrality, university entrepreneurial mission, and academic entrepreneurial intention

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miao Wang ◽  
Danny Soetanto ◽  
Jianfeng Cai ◽  
Hina Munir
Keyword(s):  
Academic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Practical Recommendation ◽  
Institutional Factor ◽  
Chinese Universities ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Academic Scientists ◽  
Identity Centrality ◽  
Scientific Identity ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between identity centrality and entrepreneurial intention. Based on a survey of 275 academic scientists from 14 Chinese universities, the results show that entrepreneurial identity centrality positively influences the intention to engage in research commercialisation activities, such as spin-off creation, patenting and licensing, contracting research and consulting. We also found that the conflict between entrepreneurial and scientific identity centrality is less problematic than expected in the literature. In fact, the interaction between both identity centralities strengthens academics scientists’ intention to involve in academic entrepreneurship. Concerning the influence of institutional factor on academic entrepreneurship, the finding confirms that university entrepreneurial mission moderates the relationship between both identity centralities and the intention to establish spin-offs. Finally, this paper provides insights for academic entrepreneurship in China and practical recommendation for policy makers.

scholarly journals Of Horses and Jockeys: Perceptions by Academic Entrepreneurs

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie A. Blair ◽  
Kelly G. Shaver
Keyword(s):  
Academic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Substantial Body ◽  
Academic Scientists ◽  
Academic Entrepreneurs ◽  
Recent Interest ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Context Specific

AbstractAlthough there has been increasing recent interest in universities as ecosystems for the encouragement of academic entrepreneurship, almost none of that work has dealt with the specific personal motives that might lead academic scientists to start companies. Metaphorically, there has been a substantial body of work describing how to create a better racetrack, some study of what sort of horses best perform in the track, but essentially no examination of the jockeys. We address this gap in the literature in two ways – first by “importing” a variety of psychological characteristics that have been shown to be predictive in the larger entrepreneurship literature, and second by developing a series of context-specific motives. Our study of 50 biomedical scientists in an academic medical center showed, unsurprisingly, that patents matter. More importantly, although the results for the imported psychological characteristics were disappointing, the findings for context-specific motives suggest that founders are distinguished from non-founders primarily by their interest in doing something positive for humanity.

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE GENDER DIFFERENCES FOR SELF-ORGANIZED ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOR BASED ON GROUNDED THEORY: A CASE FROM JIANGSU, CHINA

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (01) ◽  
pp. 1950006
Author(s):  
CAI LI ◽  
HABIB UR REHMAN MAKHDOOM ◽  
LIU YI
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Cognitive Bias ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behavior ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Cognitive Pattern ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Cognitive Mode ◽  
And Behavior

Based on grounded theory and combined with empirical investigation of self-organized entrepreneurial behavior, we explored the difference between male and female’s cognitive mode, cognitive bias and behavior influence. It is found that the cognitive pattern of self-organized female entrepreneurs is more narrow and obtrusive, but a few outstanding female entrepreneurs show outstanding performance. Self-organized male entrepreneurs show open and divergent structured cognition. On cognitive bias, women of ordinary self-organized entrepreneurs have a greater range of deviations. In terms of behavior influence, self-organized male entrepreneurs are strongly dependent on prior cognition due to their more emphasis on their professional and technological foundation, and their behavior is more persistent.

Promoting entrepreneurial intentions for academic scientists: combining the social cognition theory and theory of planned behaviour in broadly-defined academic entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miao Wang ◽  
Jianfeng Cai ◽  
Hina Munir
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Theory Of Planned Behaviour ◽  
Academic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Planned Behaviour ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Academic Scientists ◽  
The Social

PurposeDrawing on the social cognition theory, the purpose of this research is to explore how selected individual and organizational determinants, namely individual academic output (AO) and previous commercialization experience, organizational scientific reputation and entrepreneurial support policies (ESPs) influence their broadly-defined academic entrepreneurial intentions, involving spin-off intention (SOI), patenting and licensing intention (PLI), contract research and consulting intention (CCI) through theory of planned behaviour (TPB) modelling.Design/methodology/approachThe current research constructs the framework by combining reciprocal determinism in the social cognition theory with TPB. To testify the hypotheses, partial least squares structural equational modelling (PLS–SEM) technique with 272 observations from Chinese universities was utilized.FindingsThe findings show that academic-related determinants, namely individual AO and organizational reputation (OR), are more likely to influence academic scientists' SOI through TPB modelling, while entrepreneurial-related determinants in terms of individual previous commercialization experience (PCE) and ESPs in higher education organizations are more influential for promoting behavioural intention to all kinds of academic entrepreneurship activities through TPB modelling. The more formal academic entrepreneurship involvement (engaging in creating spin-offs) is better explained through TPB modelling, especially the continuous mediating effects of subjective norms and entrepreneurial attitude and perceived behavioural control are more effective on spin-off activities. In addition, subjective norms are more influential in mediating relationships between individual or organizational antecedents and academic entrepreneurial intentions in the Chinese context.Originality/valueCombining the social cognition theory and TPB, this study first investigated how individual intentions to engage in broadly-defined academic entrepreneurial activities are promoted through TPB modelling. The results, relating to the divergence of different determinants shaping different academic entrepreneurial intentions through various paths in TPB modelling, will provide insight into university managers and policymakers to improve academic entrepreneurship engagement in the Chinese context.

Self-Esteem and the SCII: Empirical Investigation of a Clinical Observation

1979 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
Karen Friedel ◽  
Jo-Ida Hansen ◽  
Thomas J. Hummel ◽  
Warren F. Shaffer
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Clinical Observation ◽  
Self Esteem

Self-Injurious Behavior vs. Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

Crisis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Bloom ◽  
Shareen Holly ◽  
Adam M. P. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Positive Reinforcement ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Animal Research ◽  
Stress Conditions ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Pharmacological Interventions ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Cns Stimulant ◽  
Nonsuicidal Self Injury

Background: Historically, the field of self-injury has distinguished between the behaviors exhibited among individuals with a developmental disability (self-injurious behaviors; SIB) and those present within a normative population (nonsuicidal self-injury; NSSI),which typically result as a response to perceived stress. More recently, however, conclusions about NSSI have been drawn from lines of animal research aimed at examining the neurobiological mechanisms of SIB. Despite some functional similarity between SIB and NSSI, no empirical investigation has provided precedent for the application of SIB-targeted animal research as justification for pharmacological interventions in populations demonstrating NSSI. Aims: The present study examined this question directly, by simulating an animal model of SIB in rodents injected with pemoline and systematically manipulating stress conditions in order to monitor rates of self-injury. Methods: Sham controls and experimental animals injected with pemoline (200 mg/kg) were assigned to either a low stress (discriminated positive reinforcement) or high stress (discriminated avoidance) group and compared on the dependent measures of self-inflicted injury prevalence and severity. Results: The manipulation of stress conditions did not impact the rate of self-injury demonstrated by the rats. The results do not support a model of stress-induced SIB in rodents. Conclusions: Current findings provide evidence for caution in the development of pharmacotherapies of NSSI in human populations based on CNS stimulant models. Theoretical implications are discussed with respect to antecedent factors such as preinjury arousal level and environmental stress.

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