PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS (PIs)
- Expected to design and manage research projects to fit with both scientific avenues and national or international priorities simultaneously.
‘entrepreneurial academics’
- Practical and direct contributions made by university research to society, BUT which have seen university scientists increasingly engaged in commercial activities and the growth of university: industry relationships and technology transfers.
VS.
‘academic entrepreneurs’
- Involved in commercialization of science, bridging academia and markets by creating start-ups based on academic results.
- Entrepreneurial mind-sets differentiate inventors from other academics, as people who produce commercial results differ from those who generate academic ones.
- PIs play an increasingly important part in the initiation of public: industry relationships. TTOs, on the other hand, are decreasingly seen as the initiator or the point of contact for industry partners.