Individual innovativeness as a driver of career success: academic techno-experts in an entrepreneurial ecosystem
Nisula, Anna-Maija; Olander, Heli (2019-09-02)
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Nisula, Anna-Maija
Olander, Heli
02.09.2019
251-275
Edward Elgar Publishing
School of Business and Management
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2019092329501
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2019092329501
Tiivistelmä
In this chapter, we investigated individual innovativeness as an entrepreneurial activity in an entrepreneurial ecosystem. As a main interest, we examined academic techno-entrepreneurs’ innovativeness in relation to their career success. Thereafter, in a comparative study, we examined whether there were differences in the relationship between innovativeness and career success in three types of sampled academic techno-experts: entrepreneurs, experts considering entrepreneurship and experts not considering entrepreneurship. The proposed models were tested using a SEM-PLS analysis of the survey dataset comprising 423 observations collected from members of the Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland (TEK) trade union. Our results showed that an academic techno-entrepreneur’s innovativeness is strongly and significantly related to her or his career success, that is, career satisfaction and income level. These results are similar for all three types of academic techno-experts. We discuss the implications of our findings and make recommendations for future study.
Lähdeviite
Nisula, A.-M., Olander, H. (2019). Individual innovativeness as a driver of career success: academic techno-experts in an entrepreneurial ecosystem. In: Thérin, F., Appio, F. P., Yoon, H. (eds.) The Handbook of Research on Techno-Entrepreneurship : Ecosystems, Innovation and Development. pp. 251-275. DOI: 10.4337/9781786439079.00021
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