The entrepreneurial intentions of academic researchers in an emerging knowledge economy

dc.contributor.advisorStaphorst, Leonarden
dc.contributor.emailichelp@gibs.co.zaen
dc.contributor.postgraduateSixholo, Joyen
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-07T09:53:48Z
dc.date.available2012-09-27en
dc.date.available2013-09-07T09:53:48Z
dc.date.created2012-03-08en
dc.date.issued2012-09-27en
dc.date.submitted2012-08-04en
dc.descriptionDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.en
dc.description.abstractThis study analysed the entrepreneurial intentions of academic researchers to create spinoffs in a country where the phenomenon of academic spinoffs is emerging. The study consisted of a quantitative analysis of entrepreneurial intentions, performed within the context of South Africa’s Higher Education Institutions and Science Councils.The study drew from psychological and entrepreneurship research on intentionality to measure the level of entrepreneurial intentions using specific determinants (entrepreneurial self-efficacy, personal networks, perceived role models, number of years spent at the academic institution, number of patents/ copyrights/ designs, type of research, and cooperation with industry) that characterise the emergence of academic entrepreneurial intentions that lead academics to the creation of spinoffs. The study also aimed to determine if there were differences in the entrepreneurial intentions between researchers in technical and non-technical fields of expertise.A quantitative online survey was conducted amongst researchers in higher education institutions and science councils, followed by data analysis using a multiple linear regression to measure the entrepreneurial intentions. Thereafter a determination of factors associated with the higher levels of intention and a comparison of the level of intentions was conducted between researchers from the two study groups using an analysis of coefficients and significance tests respectively.The study showed that the entrepreneurial intentions of researchers in South Africa were very low. It was also shown that entrepreneurial self-efficacy was the strongest predictor of academic entrepreneurial intentions. Furthermore it was found that there was no significant difference in the entrepreneurial intentions between researchers in technical and non technical fields of expertise.en
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dc.description.departmentGordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)en
dc.identifier.citationSixholo, J 2011, The entrepreneurial intentions of academic researchers in an emerging knowledge economy, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27028 >en
dc.identifier.otherF/12/4/772/zwen
dc.identifier.upetdurlhttp://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08042012-201732/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/27028
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2011 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.en
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.subjectAcademic entrepreneurial processen
dc.subjectAcademic cooperation with industryen
dc.subjectValorisationen
dc.subjectEntrepreneurial self-efficacyen
dc.subjectAcademic personal networksen
dc.subjectStartupen
dc.subjectAcademic entrepreneurshipen
dc.subjectSpinouten
dc.subjectAcademic spinoffen
dc.subjectUniversity spinoffen
dc.subjectCommercialisationen
dc.subjectTechnology transferen
dc.subjectEntrepreneurial intentionen
dc.titleThe entrepreneurial intentions of academic researchers in an emerging knowledge economyen
dc.typeDissertationen

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