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Commercialising Academic Research Results: Entrepreneurial Spirit, Training and Support.
Published in: The Nordic Conference on Entrepreneurship and Small
Business Development and Management in the New Millennium. 11th Nordic Conference on Small Business Research,
The Århus School of Business, Århus, Denmark, June 18-20, 2000. Pages 143-151.
Publisher The Århus School of Business, Århus, Denmark
Author Liisa Hyvärinen
Abstract
Commercialisation of university researcher's ideas and findings and entrepreneurial training and
support to the researchers are examined in this paper. Multi-sided phenomenon is approached first through
theories and earlier literature, second by examining the structures of entrepreneurial training employed
in other universities, and third viewing the case university through empirical material.
There are two aims, first finding some ‘best practices' and new ideas to be adopted for further
development of entrepreneurial training / education and second gathering the scattered knowledge on
university-based entrepreneurship and its background at the case university.
Interviews of 36 academic researchers and persons from the supporting organisations form the principal data.
They emphasise attitudes towards entrepreneurship as important background factors to entrepreneurial activities,
and researchers need for help and support in commercialisation. Answers of university students encourage
formation of entrepreneurial teams in the future because they wish for co-operation with other faculty
members in idea commercialisation process.
Entrepreneurial training programmes of five universities compared here are alike. All consist of
workshops for further and wider education and informative purposes, and of preparing individual
business plans, networking, mentoring and supervising of the starting enterprises. Financial support
and incubating services are offered to them with the help of technology centres and risk investors.
The same model will be adopted at the case university. Attempts towards general approval of entrepreneurship
is not mentioned in the compared programme.
Number of pages Pages 143-151 (9 pages)
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