Academic Entrepreneurship: An Explanatory Study on the Determinants of Academics’ Entrepreneurial Intentions: case study: EHEC-Alger
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2019-06
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Ecole des Hautes Etudes commerciales
Abstract
This study aims to explain the intention of the higher education teachers and researchers
in commercial sciences to create a company valuing results or skills resulting from their
research. More precisely, it identifies the determinants of intention and their weight in the
explanation of intention. Explanatory model of the intention to create a company, based on
intention models, is selected and tested on a sample of 53 academic teachers and researchers
from the EHEC-Alger. The results obtained highlight the positive roles played by the
professional and personal networks in promoting academics‟ interest in new business
ventures. In addition, the findings emphasize on the significant role of entrepreneurial
attitudes and self-efficacy. Finally, Analysis of the marginal effects of certain contextual
variables, such as perceived support from university, and of their lower impact at a
psychological level can produce interesting implications and insights, both for the academic
world and for policy makers in this area
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Academic entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial intentions, Professional and personal networks, Academics, Entrepreneurial attitudes, Self-efficacy