Changes in Academic Entrepreneurship Among Japanese University Bioscientists, 1980-2012 - Dissertation Executive Summary

The dissertation examines how Japanese university scientists in the biosciences responded to legal and institutional changes in academic entrepreneurship. The changes increased the number of university-firm interactions. However, the scientists also maintained practices that were not the intended consequences of the policy interventions, including collaborating informally and creating startups in the United States. The resulting structure of academic entrepreneurship in Japan was a juxtaposition of its old practices, new procedures, and opportunities abroad. By identifying ways that scientists can shape how policy is enacted at the local level, the dissertation complicates the current picture of the global diffusion of academic entrepreneurship