Academic entrepreneur

The common definition of academic entrepreneur is similar to the original definition of ‘entrepreneur.’ It states “the AE (academic entrepreneur) is a university scientist, most often a professor, sometimes a PhD student or a post-doc researcher, who sets up a business company in order to commercialize the results of his/her research” Academic entrepreneurship today can be understood as either:

-         A knowledge-based profession that is centered around technological development

-         An income-oriented activity that creates a small business or firm from said technological development

-         A particular behavior to be adapted by researchers in order to modify the pattern of university research

Academic entrepreneurship is part of the Third Mission of universities”