Academics or entrepreneurs? Investigating role identity modification of university scientists involved in commercialization activity
Academics or entrepreneurs? Investigating role identity modification of university scientists involved in commercialization activity
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DOI：
10.1016/j.respol.2009.02.007
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发表时间：
2009-07-01
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影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Maltarich, Mark
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作者：
Jain, Sanjay;George, Gerard;Maltarich, Mark
要建立学术创业的微观基础，就需要对促成这一现象的一个关键角色--大学科学家--进行更仔细的审查。我们调查的意义，科学家从事作为他们参与技术转让的一部分，并假设这一过程涉及到他们的角色身份的潜在修改。我们分析了一所美国一流公立研究型大学超过70小时的采访数据。我们观察到，科学家援引的参与，是与他们的学术角色认同一致的理由。他们通常采用一种混合角色身份，包括一个焦点学术自我和一个次要的商业角色。我们描绘了两种机制-授权和缓冲-这些人部署，以促进这种突出的混合角色身份。总体而言，这些模式表明，大学科学家采取积极措施，以保持他们的学术角色身份，即使他们参与技术转让。我们的研究结果澄清了科学家参与商业化活动的社会心理过程，并为学术创业，科学政策和角色认同文献提供了新的见解。(C)2009爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Establishing the microfoundations of academic entrepreneurship requires closer scrutiny of a key actor contributing to this phenomenon-the university scientist. We investigate the sense-making that scientists engage in as part of their participation in technology transfer and postulate that this process involves a potential modification in their role identity. We analyzed more than 70 h of interview data at a premier U.S. public research university. We observe that scientists invoke rationales for involvement that are congruent with their academic role identity. They typically adopt a hybrid role identity that comprises a focal academic self and a secondary commercial persona. We delineate two mechanisms - delegating and buffering - that these individuals deploy to facilitate such salience in their hybrid role identity. Overall, these patterns suggest that university scientists take active steps to preserve their academic role identity even as they participate in technology transfer. Our findings clarify the social psychological processes underlying scientist involvement in commercialization activity, and offer fresh insights to the academic entrepreneurship, science policy and role identity literatures. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.