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Publicly Funded Principal Investigators as Transformative Agents of Public Sector Entrepreneurship

In: Essays in Public Sector Entrepreneurship

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  • James A. Cunningham

    (Northumbria University)

  • Paul O’Reilly

    (Dublin Institute of Technology)

  • Conor O’Kane

    (University of Otago)

  • Vincent Mangematin

    (Grenoble Ecole de Management)

Abstract

National governments consistently implement an array of public sector entrepreneurship policies and activities, seeking to generate further economic activity and create new networks and market opportunities that reduce market risks and uncertainties for market-based technology exploiters. This means that scientists taking on the role of being a publicly funded principal investigator (PI) is at the nexus of science, government and industry, and can have a significant influence and impact on shaping and delivering outcomes of public sector entrepreneurship policies and activities. Within the emerging public sector entrepreneurship literature (see Leyden and Link 2015; Link and Link 2009), we argue that publicly funded PIs as key public sector entrepreneurship transformative agents, through scientific novelty and originality involving some creative and innovative processes that can be exploited for opportunities with good market or societal potential. Publicly funded PIs are key agents of what Leyden and Link (2015:14) define as public sector entrepreneurship:

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  • James A. Cunningham & Paul O’Reilly & Conor O’Kane & Vincent Mangematin, 2016. "Publicly Funded Principal Investigators as Transformative Agents of Public Sector Entrepreneurship," International Studies in Entrepreneurship, in: David B. Audretsch & Albert N. Link (ed.), Essays in Public Sector Entrepreneurship, edition 1, chapter 0, pages 67-94, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:inschp:978-3-319-26677-0_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26677-0_3
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