title: The role of entrepreneurial activities in academic pharmaceutical science research.
abstract: Academic pharmaceutical science research is expanding further and further from the University setting to encompass the for-profit private company setting. This parallels the National Institutes of Health momentum to include multiple funding opportunities for University and private company collaboration. It has been recognized that the nonprofit and for-profit combination research model can accelerate the commercialization of pharmaceutical products, and therefore more efficiently improve human health. Entrepreneurial activities require unique considerations in the University environment, but can be modeled after the commercialization expansion of the academic healthcare enterprise. Challenges and barriers exist to starting a company as an entrepreneurial faculty member, but the rewards to one's personal and professional lives are incomparable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0082, USA. astin2@email.uky.edu
authors.forename: Audra L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Stinchcomb
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D012106:Research; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities