(Nowy Sacz School of Business – National-Louis University, 2012) Yusof, Mohar; Siddiq, Mohammad Saeed; Nor, Leilanie Mohd
This paper focused on academic entrepreneurship, an emerging phenomenon in Malaysian public
research universities. The research demonstrated that academic entrepreneurship produced
positive impact on research commercialization and university technology transfer for these public
research universities. Academic entrepreneurship was also found to be one of the missing gaps in
fulfilling the complete process of research and development up to commercialization. This study
provided evidence of the appropriateness of using an organizational framework of academic
entrepreneurship to measure the influence of the internal environment in stimulating the level
of academic entrepreneurship. The results demonstrated that control systems, organizational
culture, human resource management systems and entrepreneurial leadership behaviour were
key predictors of academic entrepreneurship in these universities.