科学的扩散功能为知识溢出效应提供了条件,推动学术主体履行创业使命,从而引出了"学术创业"这一崭新命题.学术创业不仅包括由学者或学术组织所参与的商业化创业活动,还包括学者对学术生涯的创业型管理.根据创业导向的不同,学术创业可分为内向型、外向型和中间型三种类型.通过衍生企业和技术许可两种主要实践途径,学术创业为科学知识转化为创业资源并促进经济发展发挥着重要作用.
The diffusion function of science provides condition for knowledge spillovers, and promotes the academic main bodies to carry out the mission of entrepreneurship, which brings the new issue of "academic entrepreneurship". Academic entrepreneurship includes not only the commercial activities of entrepreneurship performed by scholars and academic organizations, but also scholars' entrepreneurship management of their academic career. According to the different entrepreneurship orientations, academic entrepreneurship has three forms: introversion, extroversion and in-between. With two practical ways of enterprise spin-offs and technical licensing, academic entrepreneurship exerts important function for translating science knowledge into entrepreneurship resource and promoting economic development.