Digital Tech Startups

The project will collect state-of-the-art knowledge and research results to promote digital entrepreneurship in general and at Danish universities. This will be done through document studies and a review of relevant research literature.

In order to gain insight into the barriers and opportunities for entrepreneurship for the individual researcher, a SWOT analysis is carried out to reveal the experience of this among scientific staff at the universities under the auspices of DIREC through a workshop. The result must complement insights gathered via document studies and literature reviews, etc. to point out opportunities to strengthen entrepreneurship in the individual researcher and at the university in general.

The results from the project are disseminated through a policy paper and a concise, research-oriented Digital Entrepreneurship Guide, and through presentations at e.g. seminars and conferences.

The project will contribute to:

• Increase the scope of entrepreneurship. Prepare an entrepreneurship guide that can support the researchers’ incentive and opportunities to succeed as entrepreneurs in the digital field.
• Gains for research. The project will focus on how entrepreneurship can strengthen research practice.
• Gains for universities. Create input for universities with a focus on innovation efforts and strategies at institute level.
• Increased insight into factors that can hinder or support digital entrepreneurship. This may include knowledge of how incentives for researchers can be strengthened, how institutes’ and universities’ innovation efforts can promote entrepreneurship, the importance of teaching researchers in entrepreneurship, and the importance of IP for the commercialization of research in the digital field.