The Guide to Entrepreneurship

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2.10 Intrapreneurship in Academia

All forms of academic research are inherently intrapreneurial. Many world-

class universities such as MIT, Stanford, and Harvard, have technology

transfer ofces designed to commercialize worthy academic research.

Unknowingly, the professors who worked on the grants and developed the

technology are intrapreneurs.

Technology Transfer, or Transfer of Technology and Technology

Commercialization, is the process of transferring skills, knowledge, technolo-

gies, methods of manufacturing, and samples of manufacturing and facilities

among universities and other institutions. Such transfer ensures that scien-

tic and technological developments are accessible to a wid