Academic entrepreneurship: the role of the university and the researcher

Abstract

In today's world, entrepreneurship is viewed as the third mission of universities in addition to its missions of teaching and research. In addition to creating new knowledge, universities are expected to be involved in economic activities as well since universities that become economic actors contribute to regional and national development. Hence, increasing the level of academic entrepreneurship is an interesting issue worldwide. Achieving desired levels of academic entrepreneurship assigns some vital roles to the university and the researcher. This paper aims to review the roles of the university and the researcher in facilitating academic entrepreneurship as well as exploring the case of a Turkish foundation university within the light of academic entrepreneurship.