New skills for entrepreneurial researchers

Mirjam Leloux*, Florentin Popescu, Andries Koops

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    Abstract

    Knowledge exchange between universities and business in collaborative/ contractual research and public-private partnerships has become far more significant. These developments instigate new mind-sets and skills for academic researchers, that should be able to translate their new technological concepts into new (business) developments. Using the two entrepreneurial functions—identification and exploitation— Park (Technovation 25: 739-752, 2005); Wright et al. (J. Technol. Transfer 29: 235-246, 2004) as well as the Vitae Researcher Development Framework (www.vitae.ac.uk) and Entrepreneurial competency framework (Int. J. Entrepreneur. Behav. Res. 6(2): 92-111, 2010), this chapter looks at the new, entrepreneurial skills that any academic researcher needs to make commercial exploitation of research a success. The purpose of this article is to investigate which (i.e. entrepreneurial) skills academic researchers need to facilitate to be more effective in exploiting their research. We especially focus on the academic researcher with a beta-scientific background.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages1251-1263
    Number of pages13
    Volume498
    ISBN (Print)9783319420691
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016
    EventInternational Conference on Human Factors, Business Management and Society, AHFE 2016 - Walt Disney World, United States
    Duration: 27 Jul 201631 Jul 2016

    Publication series

    NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
    Volume498
    ISSN (Print)2194-5357

    Conference/symposium

    Conference/symposiumInternational Conference on Human Factors, Business Management and Society, AHFE 2016
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityWalt Disney World
    Period27/07/1631/07/16

    Keywords

    • Academic researcher
    • Entrepreneurial skills
    • Exploitation of research
    • Valorization

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