All Researchers Should Become Entrepreneurs

Jordi Cabot (1, 2) , Hugo Bruneliere (3, 4) , Gwendal Daniel (2, 5) , Abel Gómez (2, 5)

1 ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats = Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
2 UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya [Barcelona]
3 IMT Atlantique - DAPI - Département Automatique, Productique et Informatique
4 LS2N - équipe NaoMod - NaoMod - Nantes Software Modeling Group
5 Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)

We often complain about the challenges associated with a fruitful research-industry collaboration. The coronavirus pandemic has just aggravated them as, clearly, companies face difficult times and have mostly paused their R&I activities. In this context, we propose that researchers become entrepreneurs and play both roles at the same time. Right now, this is much more the exception than the rule in the academic system. However, we argue this is the quickest way to get real feedback on the quality and impact of our research.

Mots clés: industry; research; transfer; entrepreneurship

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Jordi Cabot, Hugo Bruneliere, Gwendal Daniel, Abel Gómez. All Researchers Should Become Entrepreneurs. 2021 IEEE/ACM 8th International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice (SER&IP) - Co-located with ICSE 2021, Jun 2021, Madrid, Spain. ⟨10.1109/SER-IP52554.2021.00019⟩. ⟨hal-03250329⟩