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Academic Entrepreneurship Readiness in University of Tehran

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This chapter aims to report a qualitative research on determinants and barriers in the process of university research commercialization with emphasis on inevitable choice of approaching to internationalization. Through an in-depth literature review a conceptual framework developed to give a description and an explanation of the academic entrepreneurship concept and its role in economic development. Based on an interview with 76 faculty members who involved in at least one innovation project or act as managers in supporting organizations, we identified the key factors which influence innovation commercialization. In order to prioritize the importance and intensity of barriers and obstacles, after analyzing qualitative data we asked respondents to weight factors. We can classify identified factors in four categories. Determinants of innovation commercialization include: Business environment factors, supporting organization factors, project management and team member’s factors, industry and innovation project characteristics.

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  1. Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

    Jahangir Yadollahi Farsi

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    Shahamak Rezaei

  2. GSCM Montpellier Business School , Montpellier, France

    Leo-Paul Dana

  3. South East European Univ , Tetovo, Macedonia

    Veland Ramadani

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Yadollahi Farsi, J. (2017). Academic Entrepreneurship Readiness in University of Tehran. In: Rezaei, S., Dana, LP., Ramadani, V. (eds) Iranian Entrepreneurship. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50639-5_8

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