Doctoral dissertation research: Impact of academic entrepreneurship on doctoral student innovation

博士论文研究：学术创业对博士生创新的影响

• 批准号: 1933387
• 负责人: Peter Thompson
• 金额: $ 2.55万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2021-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1933387&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; dissertation; research; Impact; academic

This project examines the impact advisor entrepreneurial activities on the innovative output of doctoral students. Entrepreneurial ventures are widely considered a fundamental engine for employment and economic growth. Individuals who engage in entrepreneurship come from a variety of backgrounds, including (and increasingly) academe. The participation of university professors in entrepreneurship has experienced a surge in recent years, which has contributed to the creation of technology- and knowledge-intensive companies. This increase of entrepreneurial activity comes partially as a response to universities promoting entrepreneurship among the faculty. As universities and public policy makers increase the incentives for faculty members to start companies, they should, however, also carefully consider the implications for the other roles played by university professors. Despite the time and resources invested in promoting academic entrepreneurship, little is known about the implications of faculty engagement in entrepreneurship on, for example, creating public knowledge and training students. This project examines the latter by analyzing the extent to which an advisor's engagement in entrepreneurship impacts their doctoral students' innovative output, highlighting the trade-off between two different channels of knowledge transfer from universities to private firms. One is through the creation of university spinoffs, while the other is embodied by students. Overall, this research provides a better understanding of how professors' commercial activities may have long-lasting effects on their students' innovative productivity and careers, thereby ultimately influencing the rate and direction of inventive activity. This project uses rich administrative data on doctoral students and professors in computer science and engineering at a highly-ranked US research university, to assess variation in doctoral students' innovation and career outcomes, before and after research faculty transition into entrepreneurship. The data encompass information on professors' nationality, gender, ethnicity, age, salaries, federal funding, the number and quality of publications, as well as information on their patenting output and the number of startups they have established. These data are complemented by matching professors to their doctoral students, based on information provided by the Registrar's Office of the examined institution. For doctoral students, data includes detailed information on nationality, age, year of admission and graduation, major, GRE scores, GPAs, gender, and ethnicity, previous degree-granting institutions, careers before and after graduation, as well as publication, and patent records. The empirical approach applied to this study makes use of the richness of the available data to address potential biases induced by sorting and endogeneity of entrepreneurial activity. The findings of this study enhance our knowledge about the potential side-effects of professors' commercial activities on the innovative output and career trajectories of the doctoral students they advise. As such, this project takes an important step towards understanding the consequences of academic entrepreneurship for both universities and future innovators.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目研究了Impact Advisit企业家活动对博士学生创新成果的影响。企业家企业被广泛认为是就业和经济增长的基本引擎。从事企业家精神的个人来自多种背景，包括（越来越多）学术界。近年来，大学教授参与企业家精神的参与激增，这有助于创建技术和知识密集型公司。企业家活动的这种增加部分是作为对促进教师企业家精神的大学的回应。但是，随着大学和公共政策制定者增加了教师创办公司的激励措施，他们也应该仔细考虑对大学教授扮演的其他角色的影响。尽管花费了时间和资源来促进学术企业家精神，但对教师参与企业家精神的影响知之甚少，例如创造公众知识和培训学生。该项目通过分析顾问参与创业的程度来检查后者，从而影响其博士生的创新成果，从而强调了从大学到大学到私营公司的两个不同知识转移渠道之间的权衡。一个是通过创建大学的衍生产品，而另一个则由学生体现。总体而言，这项研究可以更好地了解教授的商业活动可能对学生的创新生产力和职业产生长期影响，从而最终影响创造性活动的速度和方向。该项目在研究教师过渡为企业家之前和之后，使用了一所美国研究大学的计算机科学和工程学博士学位和计算机科学和工程学教授的丰富行政数据，以评估博士生创新和职业成果的差异。数据包括有关教授国籍，性别，种族，年龄，薪水，联邦资金，出版物的数量和质量的信息，以及有关其专利产出的信息以及他们已经建立的初创公司的数量。根据检查机构注册办公室提供的信息，通过将教授与博士生相匹配的信息来补充这些数据。对于博士生，数据包括有关国籍，年龄，入学年龄和毕业年，专业，GRE分数，GPA，性别和种族的详细信息，以前的学位授予机构，毕业前后的职业，出版物以及专利记录。应用于本研究的经验方法利用了可用数据的丰富性来解决企业家活动的分类和内生性引起的潜在偏见。这项研究的结果增强了我们对教授商业活动对他们建议的博士生的创新成果和职业轨迹的潜在副作用的了解。因此，该项目朝着了解学术企业家精神对大学和未来创新者的后果迈出的重要一步。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估来支持的。