| Entrepreneurial Orientation in Academia 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Boehm, Jan (Author), Brettel, Prof Dr Malte (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 3835009338 ISBN-13: 9783835009332 Publisher: Gabler Verlag OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship - Business & Economics | Production & Operations Management - Business & Economics | Management - General |
| Dewey: 658.421 |
| Series: Entrepreneurship |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.75 lbs) 237 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Entrepreneurial firms and new venture creation are important drivers for economic growth. Hence, emphasis is put on the question how to adequately stimulate and s- port new business creation. The corresponding discussion has not excluded academic organisations such as universities - quite the contrary. In Germany, this discussion was intensified by changes in the Employee Invention Act (Arbeitnehmererfinder- setz), which now obliges researchers to report an invention to the sponsoring univ- sity, which in return has to decide how the invention it will be exploited. Sub- quently, inventions and patents have emerged as a attractive economic resource for universities. This explains why university administrators have great interest in und- standing how the creative and entrepreneurial orientation of researchers or entire - search teams can be controlled, steered, and enhanced. The discussion we are having in Germany today began in the US more than 20 years ago. With the Bayh-Dole-Act of 1980, a shift in the allocation of property took place similar to the introduction of the Employee Invention Act in Germany today. In ad- tion, the notion of entrepreneurial activities in the context of research organisations has a long-lasting tradition in the US, and the current German system could learn a lot from understanding these developments. This has been the motive for Jan Boehm to look deeper into the field of entrepren- rial orientation in academia, in particular in the US. |
