Academic Entrepreneurship in Historical Perspective

Over the last couple of years, an interdisciplinary group of historians of science and technology and business historians have been collaborating on a project on "academic entrepreneurship" that has resulted in the publication of two special issues. Links to the  introductions to those special issues and a list of the articles can be found below.

MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY (V 12, no. 3, 2017)

“Academic Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change in Historical Perspective”

R. Daniel Wadhwani, University of the Pacific

Gabriel Galvez-Behar, University of Lille

Joris Mercelis, Johns Hopkins

Anna Guagnini. University of Bologna

An entrepreneurial opportunity in process: creating an industrial fellowship in early twentieth century America

Ellan Spero, MIT

Envisioning a national infrastructure for science – academic entrepreneurship in 1890s–1950s Norway

Thomas Brandt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Institutional enterprise as a compromise: the national organization of science in France

Gabriel Galvez-Behar, University of Lille

A reciprocal legitimation: Corrado Gini and statistics in fascist Italy

Giovanni Favero,  Universita Venezia

Academic centers and/as industrial consortia in American microelectronics research

Cyrus C.M. Mody, Maastricht University

HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY (V 33, no. 1, 2017)

"Commercializing Science: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Academic Scientists as Consultants, Patentees and Entrepreneurs"

Joris Mercelis, Johns Hopkins

Gabriel Galvez-Behar, University of Lille

Anna Guagnini. University of Bologna

Commercializing academic knowledge and reputation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: photography and beyond Joris Mercelis, Johns Hopkins

Engineering professors as entrepreneurs: the case of Franz Reuleaux (1829–1905) and Alois Riedler (1850–1936)

Wolfgang Konig, German Academy of Science and Technology

Ivory towers? The commercial activity of British professors of engineering and physics, 1880–1914

Anna Guagnini, University of Bologna

Technological entrepreneurship from patenting to commercializing: a survey of late nineteenth and early twentieth century physics lecturers

Shaul Katzir, Tel Aviv University

The commercialization of molecular biology: Walter Gilbert and the Biogen startup

Brian Dick, Chemical History Foundation Mark Jones, Tech History Works