related to the scientists' motives, expectations and perceptions about the importance and necessity of such activities. There … relatively under-researched theme. Our findings suggest that scientists are rarely engage in patenting activities for economic … actors found to be important factors for scientists' entrepreneurial activities. Serial inventors act as role models to other …

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 …