Academics' entrepreneurship propensities and gender differences
Författare
Summary, in English
Using survey data from a large public research organization, this study examines entrepreneurship propensities of academic researchers, focusing on gender differences. Although sample means of female and male propensities toward entrepreneurship are fairly similar, regression estimates show significant gender differences in the association of several factors with propensities to start businesses. In particular, prior record of researchers' patenting and institutional leadership promote tendencies towards entrepreneurship among male researchers, but not among female researchers. Also, unlike the male scientists, doctoral degrees and preference for open access of research results do not significantly influence the entrepreneurial attitudes of female researchers. The results for the full sample are similar to those for the male subsample, with a negative coefficient on the variable identifying females.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
161-177
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Technology Transfer
Volym
40
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Business Administration
Nyckelord
- Academic
- Entrepreneurship
- Patent
- Gender
- Germany
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0892-9912