Academics or entrepreneurs? Investigating role identity modification of university scientists involved in commercialization activity

Jain, Sanjay; George, Gerard; Maltarich, Mark A.

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2009.02.007

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“…While prior work has examined the importance of entrepreneurial self-identity in commercialization activities (Cardon et al 2009, Fauchart and Gruber 2011, Hoang and Gimeno 2010, Jain et al 2009, Powell and Baker 2014, these studies have largely been case-based or retrospective in nature, making it hard to generalize the relative impact of self-identity in the decision to commercialize.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Self-identity is "the extent to which performing [a] behavior is an important part of one's self concept" (Terry et al 1999: 226), and is shaped by both personal and social factors (Brewer 1991, Stryker and. A recent stream of research has demonstrated the importance of self-identity in decisions associated with both entrepreneurship and commercialization (Fauchart and Gruber 2011, Jain et al 2009, Powell and Baker 2014 and innovation communities (Bagozzi and Dholakia 2006).…”

Section: Self-identitymentioning

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Filthy Lucre? Innovative Communities, Identity, and Commercialization

Mollick

2016

Organization Science

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Online communities play an increasingly important role in developing innovation. However, relatively little is known about the ways in which community affiliation influences how innovations and products generated in these communities are commercialized. By examining open source software (OSS) as an example of an innovation community and using both a quasi experiment and a longitudinal survey, I seek to shed light on this issue. In the quasi experiment, using the launch of the Apple App Store, I find a decreased propensity toward commercialization among individuals associated with online community innovation. I then examine the mechanisms for this decreased commercialization with a novel longitudinal survey of OSS community members. Despite the history of OSS as an anticommercial community, I do not find that anticommercial attitudes play a role in commercialization decisions. Instead, differences in entrepreneurial self-identity have large significant effects on the propensity to commercialize. I conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings for the literatures on both entrepreneurial identity and community innovation. Abstract:Online communities play an increasingly important role in developing new innovations. However, relatively little is known about the ways in which community affiliation may change the incentives to commercialize those new innovations. By examining Open Source Software (OSS) as an example of an innovation community, and using both a quasi-experiment and a longitudinal survey, I seek to shed light on this issue. In the quasi-experiment using the launch of the Apple App Store, I find a lower propensity towards commercialization among individuals associated with online community innovation. I then examine the mechanisms for this lower commercialization with a novel longitudinal survey of entrepreneurial activity among OSS community members. Despite the history of OSS as an anticommercial community, I do not find that anti-commercial attitudes play a role in commercialization decisions. Instead, differences in self-identity between community-based innovators and entrepreneurs have large significant effects on the propensity to commercialize innovations. I conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings for both the literatures on entrepreneurial identity and community innovation.

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Section: Self-identitymentioning

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Filthy Lucre? Innovative Communities, Identity, and Commercialization

Mollick

2016

Organization Science

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“…Analogies on this level were found in academic entrepreneurship (Jain, George, & Maltarich, 2009) and even highly aesthetical work of computer programmers in IT companies (Case & Piñeiro, 2006;Jemielniak, 2010) which seem to experience similar conflicts and dilemmas as artists, especially those involved in commercialization of their works. The degree of those is of course somewhat different, but in essence the mechanisms seem to be similar in terms of artistic work, as one of the first broadly acceptable forms of creative work which now seems to be more significant than ever before.…”

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“…al., 1996) majority of high growth enterprises thrive on introducing a new product or service (Cumming, 1998). This is significant as growth oriented enterprises are high contributors to economic development (Cieślik, 2008) and innovation is often the characteristic that differentiates small business owners from entrepreneurs (Carland, Hoy, Boulton, & Carland, 1984;Cieslik, 2006) The fact of successfully commercializing a creative idea is the core of topics like academic or technological entrepreneurship (Jain, et al, 2009) as it is at the core of artistic entrepreneurship. Creativity can be defined as transgression of existing boundaries, seeing more and the ability to find patterns where others see none (Kozielecki, 1987).…”

Section: Entrepreneurship and Artistic Entrepreneurship -Point Of Depmentioning

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“…Since many analogies between scientific and artistic work has been established, it is possible to draw from research done on academic entrepreneurs (Jain, et al, 2009) to try to sum up the differences and similarities in outputs or the of artist, academics and an entrepreneur. source: own research and based on (Jain, et al, 2009) In its essence, from a socio-economic perspective, the conflict between art and commerce can be conceptualized as a simple two dimensional continuum narrowing down to the potential market for a product. On one axis lies the complexity and relevance of the products in terms of advancement of artistic merit and on the other the shift from material and monetary to status and peer recognition rewards.…”

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Artistic Entrepreneurship and the Need for Market Orientation in the Context of Rising Significance of the Creative Industries

Olesiewicz

2011

SSRN Journal

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual background and definitions helpful for further research of growth oriented artistic entrepreneurship. Creative industries are becoming increasingly important to the economy of developed countries. This fact is starting to affect the creative arts sector both as a source of creative and artistic workers, innovation and a potential source of higher economic contributions. A brief macro to micro analysis puts the phenomenon in a wider context. Analogies between academic and artistic work are drawn in order to allow the possibility of exploring what seems to be a similar process that had already happened in the education sector. In several aspects congruence between artistic and knowledge based work is presented. Additionally, the paper presents some initial data collected from a preliminary qualitative study of 4 in-depth, open-ended, semi-structured interviews with growth oriented artistic entrepreneurs and artists.Findings: Literature and initial field studies seem to indicate that artistic and administrative, business-like, activities differ in terms of methods used. They also suggest that this may impact the work of artistic entrepreneurs and their willingness to further develop the venture. This is connected with the fact that many artists seem to operate in very specialized expert markets which can prove to be a challenge in a successful commercialization of their work.Originality/value: The paper contributes to the development of a topic that has not been studied well, but might be of significance in the near future. Initial macro and micro analysis of the phenomenon of artistic entrepreneurship tries to take into account perspectives from several disciplines in order to contribute to the accumulation of, so far, very scarce knowledge on the topic.

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Perceived quality and self‐identity in scholarly publishing

Moksness

Olsen

2019

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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The purpose of the study was to understand if and how 2 proposed facets of self-identity (work-self and careerself) and journals' perceived quality (impact, visibility, and content quality) influence and explain the intention to publish in open access (OA) or nonopen access (non-OA) journals. This study integrates attitude and identity theory within a cross-sectional survey design. The sample consists of about 1,600 researchers in Norway, and the data were collected via e-mail invitation using a digital surveying tool and analyzed using structural equation modeling techniques. We determined that perceived impact-quality increases the intention to publish non-OA, while decreasing the intention to publish OA. Content quality is only associated with non-OA journals. Perceived visibility increases the intention to publish OA, while the opposite effect is found for non-OA. Career-self salience has the strongest effect on impact-quality, while content quality is most important when work-self is salient. This research contributes to a deeper understanding about how perceived quality influences intention to publish in OA and non-OA journals, and how self-identity salience affects different facets of perceived quality in valence and strength. Findings have implications for policy development, implementation, and assessment and may contribute to improving OA adoption.

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Academics or entrepreneurs? Investigating role identity modification of university scientists involved in commercialization activity

Cited by 499 publications

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Filthy Lucre? Innovative Communities, Identity, and Commercialization

Filthy Lucre? Innovative Communities, Identity, and Commercialization

Artistic Entrepreneurship and the Need for Market Orientation in the Context of Rising Significance of the Creative Industries

Perceived quality and self‐identity in scholarly publishing

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