Attention to Exploration: The Effect of Academic Entrepreneurship on the Production of Scientific Knowledge

The authors thank senior editor Gary Dushnitsky and three anonymous reviewers for their guidance throughout a fruitful review process. They are grateful to the following individuals for their comments on previous drafts: Christine Beckman, Tiziana Casciaro, Paola Criscuolo, Alfonso Gambardella, Tim Folta, Jonathan Haskell, Karin Hoisl, Mark Kennedy, Keld Laursen, Ammon Salter, Andrew Shipilov, Mary Tripsas, Chris Tucci, and Maurizio Zollo. The authors appreciate the research assistance of Stefano Benigni and Cleo Silvestri. Special thanks to Okan Kibaroglu for helping to create the data set for this research, and the Imperial academics who kindly offered to be interviewed. They are grateful to Francesco Lissoni for sharing the Academic Patenting in Europe (APE-INV) database, and Harry P. Bowen for his advice. All three authors contributed equally to this work and are listed in alphabetical order.