Affiliation:
1. Thomas Åstebro is the L’Oreal Professor of Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris, Department of Economics and Decision Sciences. Serguey Braguinsky is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business and the Department of Economics, a Professor at Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Pontus Braunerhjelm is a Professor and Department Head at the KTH Royal Institute of...
Abstract
Is the Bayh-Dole intellectual property regime associated with more and better academic entrepreneurship than the Professor’s Privilege regime? The authors examine data on US PhDs in the natural sciences, engineering, and medical fields who became entrepreneurs in 1993–2006 and compare this to similar data from Sweden. They find that, in both countries, those with an academic background have lower rates of entry into entrepreneurship than do those with a non-academic background. The relative rate of academics starting entrepreneurial firms is slightly lower in the United States than in Sweden. Moreover, the mean economic gains from becoming an entrepreneur are negative, both for PhDs originating in academia and for non-academic settings in both countries. Analysis indicates that selection into entrepreneurship occurs from the lower part of the ability distribution among academics. The results suggest that policies supporting entrepreneurial decisions by younger, tenure-track academics may be more effective than are general incentives to increase academic entrepreneurship.
Funder
Fondation HEC
Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
Subject
Management of Technology and Innovation,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Strategy and Management
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