Entrepreneurship and UK doctoral graduates
4 July 2011
Tristram Hooley, Kieran Bentley and John Marriott have recently published an article for the Journal, Industry and Higher Education on the experience of UK doctoral graduates in pursuing entrepreneurial careers. The nature of their experience was explored using 37 interviews with doctoral entrepreneurs. The research was funded by Vitae (www.vitae.ac.uk), an organization championing the personal, professional and career development of doctoral researchers and research staff in UK higher education. The stories that the participants tell suggest that doctoral entrepreneurship develops out of a complex interaction between the personality and skills of the entrepreneurs and the environment in which they operate. In particular, the authors argue that the participants have mobilized a mix of financial, social and educational capital in order to create and sustain their enterprises successfully.
The article is available if you have a subscription from the Ingenta website or you can view an earlier related report for vitae ' What do Researchers do? Career Profiles of Doctoral Entrepreneurs' by clicking on the link.
