02327nas a2200229 a 450000500170000000800410001703500150005810000270007324500550010030000220015549000520017750001200022950200820034952013080043165000380173965000330177770000320181070000420184270000440188471000850192881000840201320260818144915.0210504s2016    th uu m rtt   0|  a1eng d  a.b123692381 aPerera, L.A.S. Ranjith10aKey motives of academic entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka  a55 leaves :bill.1 aResearch studies project report ;vno. SM-16-07  aA research submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration  aResearch Studies Project Report (M.BA.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2016  aContribution of academics towards the business plays a significant role in a country's  economy. It has recognized in the past and proved in some countries that the virtue of  acting on the entrepreneurial way of university lecturers, in addition to their traditional  ways of teaching and doing research. Identifying the lecturers' motives behind the way of  acting entrepreneurially is advantageous in strengthening the tripartite relationship between  university, industry and government. Hence, the aim of this research was to identifying the  key motives of university lecturers in Sri Lanka to act as academic entrepreneurs. The data  were gathered from university lecturers at three main state engineering faculties which  possess different contextual factors from each other. This is a qualitative research based on  the interviews with a sample of thirty lecturers. Basically, motives of individuals to engage  in academic entrepreneurial endeavours were investigated. Then, the impact of formal and  informal groups in the involvement of such activities was assessed. Finally, eight key  motives were identified and contributed fourteen propositions all together to the literature  on academic entrepreneurship based on Sri Lankan university contexts, group influence  and individual factors.  0aBusiness and educationzSri Lanka 0aEntrepreneurshipxEducation 1 aIgel, Barbara,eChairperson1 aBadir, Yuosre,eExamination Committee1 aAbeykoon, Harsha,eExaminatio Committee2 aAsian Development Bank - Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP),eScholarship Donor2 aAsian Institute of Technology.tResearch studies project report ;vno. SM-16-07