The Tough Life of an Academic Entrepreneur: Innovative commercial and non-commercial ventures must be encouraged.

Academic entrepreneurs are a valuable asset for universities. However, most academic entrepreneurs are forced to live double lives. Performance assessments rarely factor in their experimental and unconventional activities. Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr outline incentives needed to unleash the creative potential of scholars for the overall benefit of society. Cheli Cresswell’s last meeting with her PhD assessors was odd. Her assessors, renowned scholars […]