Academic entrepreneurship has gained popularity in recent decades as an important feature in the movement towards a knowledge society. Research shows that the organisational context can facilitate or impede academic entrepreneurship. However academics are often faced with a weak set of institutional and organisational factors which inhibit the commercialisation and technology innovation process. This article builds in the direction of this emerging stream of research and empirically investigates the relationship between the management support, rewards and incentives, time allocation and measurable academic entrepreneurship outputs. Following a survey of universities and research councils in South Africa, the results reveal several positive interrelationships between the study variables. In particular rewards were found to have a significant impact on academic entrepreneurship outputs. Implications relate to management interventions to design and implement simple and harmonised academic entrepreneurship support mechanisms which focus on rewards and incentives.

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学术创业精神和组织支持因素

近几十年来，学术型企业家精神已成为走向知识社会的重要特征，因此受到欢迎。研究表明，组织环境可以促进或阻碍学术创业。然而，学者们经常面临着一系列薄弱的制度和组织因素，这些因素阻碍了商业化和技术创新过程。本文建立在这一新兴研究方向的基础上，并通过实证研究了管理支持，奖励和激励，时间分配与可衡量的学术企业家产出之间的关系。在对南非的大学和研究委员会进行调查之后，结果揭示了研究变量之间的几种正相关关系。特别是，发现奖励对学术创业成果有重大影响。这与管理干预措施有关，这些干预措施旨在设计和实施以奖励和激励为重点的简单且统一的学术创业支持机制。