A new focus on Academic Entrepreneurs through Social Media

This paper aims at improving our understanding of the attributes of academic actors in order for them to become more successful academic entrepreneurs. Those researchers must have the capacity to identify and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. Therefore, this is an explorative study of academic entrepreneurship/entrepreneurs with the purpose of investigating the way in which they can share their researches among academics, without having commercial/financial purposes, as a primary motivation. With the highly development of the new media technologies and thanks to the globalization of information and increasing access to the worldwide produced information, the new social media tools are recognized as a factor for spreading freely and without any restrictions the information around the world. Thus, academics have the opportunity to exploit worldwide and more easily their researches, using different social media tools and applications and, thus, to enter the world of entrepreneurs. Thus, they can also use social media tools and applications in order to have access to partnerships across the globe, to network globally with their colleagues and/or partners, to find additional resources for the universities, aspects that are covered in this paper.