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Devrim Göktepe-Hultén. Photo.

Devrim Göktepe-Hultén

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Devrim Göktepe-Hultén. Photo.

Academic leadership and commercial activities at research institutes : German evidence

Author

  • Rajeev K. Goel
  • Devrim Göktepe-Hultén

Summary, in English

This paper focuses on entrepreneurship by academic leaders. With the use of patents, inventions, and spin-offs to measure commercialization, and directors, research group leaders, and business owners as academic leaders, results, using a sample of more than 2,500 German researchers, show differences across academic leaders and commercialization. Findings for spin-offs are different from those for patents and inventions. Academic leaders in sciences were more likely to commercialize. Doctoral degrees helped patents by business owners and spin-offs by group leaders, whereas female business owners and female group leaders faced challenges patenting and inventing, respectively. For business owners, age increased the likelihood of patenting but lowered spin-offs.

Department/s

  • Department of Business Administration

Publishing year

2018-07-01

Language

English

Pages

601-609

Publication/Series

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volume

39

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Topic

  • Business Administration

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0143-6570