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Entrepreneurial Intention Amongst Scientists And Their Transition To Roles In Research Based Startups, Krishna Kumar Nallur Sep 2020

Entrepreneurial Intention Amongst Scientists And Their Transition To Roles In Research Based Startups, Krishna Kumar Nallur

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The involvement of scientist and their transition to Research based Startup’s (RBSU’s) has been identified as a key factor in their success. This study was undertaken to better understand this transition of the scientist into the RBSU. It followed a two-step process of interviewing 28 researchers, researcher - entrepreneurs and researcher - startup employees followed by a survey with 104 individuals with similar backgrounds in research, entrepreneurship and as startup employees. the survey sought to understand the effects of entrepreneurial training / internships, access to entrepreneurs (network) and the role of events on these individuals and the likelihood of their …