TY - CHAP
T1 - Mobility and Academic Entrepreneurship
T2 - An Empirical Analysis of Japanese Scientists
AU - Yasuda, Satoko
N1 - Funding Information:
The literature often indicates, however, that there are factors that help AEs fill the gap or overcome the filter. For example, direct communication among the persons involved—those participating in knowledge exchange from both universities and companies—has been extensively studied. Research in this stream often discovered that direct communication is supported by face-to-face interactions among academic scientists and company researchers (Balconi and Laboranti 2006), by consultancy and joint research conducted by both academics and business people (D’Este and Patel 2007), and by social networks of academics developed through prior business owner experience (Mosey and Wright 2007).
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PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This study examines whether the mobility of university scientists enhances academic entrepreneurship at the individual level by examining scientists’ career paths. It draws on a theoretical framework concerning the factors that enable entrepreneurs to recognize opportunities. A new set of data comprising credible and wide-ranging information facilitated the empirical analyses of more than 500 scientists holding full-time positions at the University of Tokyo. First, the study distinguishes between Japanese academic entrepreneurs (AEs), who recognized the opportunities offered in Japanese academia from 1998 to 2004, and non-AEs, who did not. It then compares the career paths of AEs and non-AEs, highlighting three kinds of mobility: job mobility, sector mobility, and international mobility. The result of the probit analysis clearly shows that both job mobility and international mobility are positively related to enhanced entrepreneurship among Japanese scientists, whereas sector mobility is not. A brief discussion of the results follows. This paper concludes that mobility—the experience of moving beyond boundaries—enables Japanese scientists to access the resources, learn the skills, and acquire the entrepreneurial traits that enhance their academic entrepreneurship.
AB - This study examines whether the mobility of university scientists enhances academic entrepreneurship at the individual level by examining scientists’ career paths. It draws on a theoretical framework concerning the factors that enable entrepreneurs to recognize opportunities. A new set of data comprising credible and wide-ranging information facilitated the empirical analyses of more than 500 scientists holding full-time positions at the University of Tokyo. First, the study distinguishes between Japanese academic entrepreneurs (AEs), who recognized the opportunities offered in Japanese academia from 1998 to 2004, and non-AEs, who did not. It then compares the career paths of AEs and non-AEs, highlighting three kinds of mobility: job mobility, sector mobility, and international mobility. The result of the probit analysis clearly shows that both job mobility and international mobility are positively related to enhanced entrepreneurship among Japanese scientists, whereas sector mobility is not. A brief discussion of the results follows. This paper concludes that mobility—the experience of moving beyond boundaries—enables Japanese scientists to access the resources, learn the skills, and acquire the entrepreneurial traits that enhance their academic entrepreneurship.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-17713-7_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-17713-7_2
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84955415351
T3 - International Studies in Entrepreneurship
SP - 27
EP - 47
BT - International Studies in Entrepreneurship
PB - Springer
ER -