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Academic Entrepreneurship Without Borders

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  • Monika Jakubiak

    (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland)

  • Agnieszka Sitko-Lutek

    (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland)

Abstract

Since march 2013, Lublin Science and Technology Park (LSTP) and Maria Curie Sklodowska University have been implementing the INNO-BROKER project. In the framework of the project, a strategy and a model of education for innovation brokers is to be developed. The task of people employed as innovation brokers will be to acquire novel and innovative technologies and solutions developed in Lublin universities and find buyer among businesses. Innovation brokers will also provide consultancy for entrepreneurs, identify research problems and find contractors to solve these. The initiative of the LSTP aims at increasing innovation in Lublin region by the development of academic entrepreneurship. The present paper is concerned with academic entrepreneurship understood as entrepreneurial activity of the academia- students, graduates and scientists. The paper presents recruitment results of Inno-broker project, motivation of people to become innovation brokers and their future professional plans as regards entrepreneurship. Authors’ objective is to analyse factors influencing the development of academic entrepreneurship and young people’s motivation to undertake entrepreneurial activities. Empirical data was collected as a result of recruitment process in INNO-BROKER LSTP project. Analysis of application questionnaires allowed for data from 151 out of the total of 210 respondents (students, graduates, scientists interested in the development of academic entrepreneurship) to be collected.

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  • Monika Jakubiak & Agnieszka Sitko-Lutek, 2014. "Academic Entrepreneurship Without Borders," Human Capital without Borders: Knowledge and Learning for Quality of Life; Proceedings of the Management, Knowledge and Learning International Conference 2014,, ToKnowPress.
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