Academic Entrepreneurship:

I would recommend this text as a good starting point for any serious researcher seeking to understand more about university spinoff companies. Joanne Duberley, Prometheus Academic Entrepreneurship is well structured and lives up to Shane s ambition to create a coherent picture of the spin-off phenomenon. The introduction demonstrates the importance and relevance of the subject, and provides historical anchoring. . . The broad and all-embracing content of the book is in the highest degree relevant for practitioners who want a deepened understanding and concrete tips about the spin-off phenomenon. Shane s book fills a need for innovators, entrepreneurs, investors and, not least, civil servants in both public and private institutions who work to support companies coming from the academic environment. Scott Shane s book has the potential to become one of the standard works in academic entrepreneurship. . . the book is unambiguously positive. Magnus Klofsten and Johan Scheele, International Small Business Journal . . . likely to prove exceptionally valuable for researchers in this area and as a reference for those briefing policymakers. . . essential reading for those joining technology transfer offices, particularly in the USA, and for many who are there already. It will clearly give would-be academic entrepreneurs a feel for the terrain and some clue to the causes of success or failure. Robert Handscombe, R&D Management . . . this book is very strong and is an essential read for practitioners and researchers in this subject area. The various parts of the book are well researched, being based on a good understanding of the published work on the subject and on Shane s own extensive fieldwork. . . What is particularly valuable about this book is that it appears to bring together a detailed understanding of the subject for the first time, covering all the elements that are important. . . the book is well written providing sound practical points and some extremely valuable insights for technology commercialisation managers. Luke Pittaway, Education Economics . . . I do not see how any business library can justify not holding it. It will be an essential resource for the increasing number of academic researchers and MBA students looking at this field, since it provides them with an overview and bibliography in one easily accessible format. . . I thoroughly recommend this book to academics researching the subject or thinking of spinning out a company; to university technology transfer managers and senior administrators whose institutions would benefit from spinoffs; to investors who, by acquiring a deeper understanding, could enhance their returns; and to local and national politicians who, by understanding the contribution spinoffs could make to their economies, would see the value of encouraging them. Tim Cook, Materialstoday This is really a must read compendium of research on academic entrepreneurship. It should be on the reading list for any course in the area and [it] also provides an interesting perspective [for] other researchers. . . Marie C. Thursby, Hal and John Smith Chair of Entrepreneurship, Georgia Institute of Technology, US Shane provides, with an insider s perspective, an accurate and comprehensive profile of university spinoffs what they are, how and where they are likely to happen, and their true economic and social impact. Mark E. Coticchia, Vice President of Research, Case Western Reserve University, and co-founder of Lycos, Inc, US What is particularly admirable about the book is that it would equally appeal to scholars from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds researching the phenomenon as it would to technology transfer officers, to the inventors involved or thinking of becoming involved in university spinouts, to policymakers, to surrogate entrepreneurs and to investors. Sue Birley, Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre, Imperial College, UK This book will be read by university adminis