title: Entrepreneurship in the academic radiology environment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Innovation and entrepreneurship in health care can help solve the current health care crisis by creating products and services that improve quality and convenience while reducing costs.
  
  
  METHODS
  To effectively drive innovation and entrepreneurship within the current health care delivery environment, academic institutions will need to provide education, promote networking across disciplines, align incentives, and adapt institutional cultures. This article provides a general review of entrepreneurship and commercialization from the perspective of academic radiology departments, drawing on information sources in several disciplines including radiology, medicine, law, and business.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our review will discuss the role of universities in supporting academic entrepreneurship, identify drivers of entrepreneurship, detail opportunities for academic radiologists, and outline key strategies that foster greater involvement of radiologists in entrepreneurial efforts and encourage leadership to embrace and support entrepreneurship.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, 234 Goodman Street ML 0761, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0761. Electronic address: Jason.Itri@UCHealth.com.
authors.forename: Jason N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Itri
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Louisiana State University Health, Shreveport, Louisiana; Louisiana State University Health School of Medicine, Shreveport, Louisiana.
authors.forename: David H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Ballard
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Stamatis
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kantartzis
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
authors.forename: Joseph C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Louisiana State University Health, Shreveport, Louisiana; Louisiana State University Health School of Medicine, Shreveport, Louisiana.
authors.forename: Jeffery A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Weisman
authors.affiliation: Evolent Health, Arlington, Virginia.
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Durand
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Sayed
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Akash P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Kansagra
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D016520:Entrepreneurship / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007221:Industry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011871:Radiology / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States
keywords: Entrepreneurship; academic radiologists; commercialization