Published: 16 August 2012
Turning entrepreneurial doesn’t stunt academic research output
Michael Kenward, Science|Business
New evidence from Italy shows that - contrary to the accepted view - academics who become entrepreneurs don’t publish less. This is an important message for universities which fear encouraging start-ups will harm their research, says Michael Kenward
Michael Kenward, Editor-at-Large, Science|Business
Entrepreneurship and scientific research are not in conflict after all, according to a study of university spin-outs in Italy, which found researcher-entrepreneurs are more productive than peers that are wedded to academe. The findings have implications for university administrators who fear the quality of an institution’s basic research will suffer if scientists get caught up in commercialisation.
This fear is based on the “publish or perish” mantra that holds in much of the academic world. You...
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