TY  - SER
AU  - Perera,L.A.S.Ranjith
AU  - Igel,Barbara
AU  - Badir,Yuosre
AU  - Abeykoon,Harsha
ED  - Asian Development Bank - Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP),
TI  - Key motives of academic entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka
T2  - Research studies project report
KW  - Business and education
KW  - Sri Lanka
KW  - Entrepreneurship
KW  - Education
N1  - A research submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration; Research Studies Project Report (M.BA.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2016
N2  - Contribution 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.
ER  -