What Motivates Scientists in Emerging Economies to Become Entrepreneurs? Evidence from Vietnam

Studies of scientist entrepreneurship have recognized a diverse range of proself motivations but have largely ignored the role of prosocial motivation. As technology inventions often bring in high positive externality, we argue that prosocial motivation is important for scientist entrepreneurship an...

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Main Authors:	Thang Nguyen, Lan Nguyen, Scott Bryant, Hieu Nguyen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2020-02-01
Series:	Sustainability
Subjects:	scientist entrepreneurship prosocial motivation emerging economies vietnam
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/3/1196

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spelling	doaj-21d93f5192004eeba16525947ee212d32020-11-25T03:32:00ZengMDPI AGSustainability2071-10502020-02-01123119610.3390/su12031196su12031196What Motivates Scientists in Emerging Economies to Become Entrepreneurs? Evidence from VietnamThang Nguyen0Lan Nguyen1Scott Bryant2Hieu Nguyen3Institute for Sustainable Development, National Economics University, Hanoi 100000, VietnamInstitute for Scientific Information, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi 100000, VietnamJake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USAFaculty of Planning and Development National Economics University, Hanoi 100000, VietnamStudies of scientist entrepreneurship have recognized a diverse range of proself motivations but have largely ignored the role of prosocial motivation. As technology inventions often bring in high positive externality, we argue that prosocial motivation is important for scientist entrepreneurship and sustainable development. Drawing from motivated information processing theory we develop a model linking proself and prosocial motivation with scientist entrepreneurship. The hypotheses were tested based on survey data from a sample of Vietnamese scientists. The results show that both proself and prosocial motivation are positively associated with scientist entrepreneurship. However, the positive association between prosocial motivation and scientist entrepreneurship is lessened by proself motivation. This study calls for more attention to prosocial motivation in theory and policy development on scientist entrepreneurship.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/3/1196scientist entrepreneurshipprosocial motivationemerging economiesvietnam
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title	What Motivates Scientists in Emerging Economies to Become Entrepreneurs? Evidence from Vietnam
title_short	What Motivates Scientists in Emerging Economies to Become Entrepreneurs? Evidence from Vietnam
title_full	What Motivates Scientists in Emerging Economies to Become Entrepreneurs? Evidence from Vietnam
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publisher	MDPI AG
series	Sustainability
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publishDate	2020-02-01
description	Studies of scientist entrepreneurship have recognized a diverse range of proself motivations but have largely ignored the role of prosocial motivation. As technology inventions often bring in high positive externality, we argue that prosocial motivation is important for scientist entrepreneurship and sustainable development. Drawing from motivated information processing theory we develop a model linking proself and prosocial motivation with scientist entrepreneurship. The hypotheses were tested based on survey data from a sample of Vietnamese scientists. The results show that both proself and prosocial motivation are positively associated with scientist entrepreneurship. However, the positive association between prosocial motivation and scientist entrepreneurship is lessened by proself motivation. This study calls for more attention to prosocial motivation in theory and policy development on scientist entrepreneurship.
topic	scientist entrepreneurship prosocial motivation emerging economies vietnam
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What Motivates Scientists in Emerging Economies to Become Entrepreneurs? Evidence from Vietnam

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