entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals … commercialization channel by academic scientists. Moreover, we find that the firms associated with these scientists perform …

entrepreneurship than the “Professor's Privilege” regime. Using data on U.S. STEM Ph.D.'s becoming entrepreneurs during 1993-2006 and … similar data from Sweden we present evidence showing that in both countries the entry rate into entrepreneurship is lower for … academic entrepreneurship is slightly lower in the U.S. than in Sweden. We also find that the mean economic gains for becoming …

offers an empirical examination of this question for a subpopulation of biomedical academic scientists who received research … change using individual-level panel data. We find that the biomedical scientists who eventually choose to found or join a for … they pursue entrepreneurship in the private sector, however, their scholarly productivity falls. Those entrepreneurial …