Little is known about the paths individuals traverse prior to founding firms and the ramifications of these different paths on entrepreneurial outcomes. We investigate one particular path and its effects: user entrepreneurship. User entrepreneurship describes entrepreneurship by individuals who...

For much of the past century, universities and university-based researchers have played a critical role in driving technological progress, from the fortification of Vitamin D in the 1920s to the creation of Google in the 1990s. In the process, universities have been a strong catalyst for U.S....