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Tenurepreneur

Tenure commonly refers to life occupancy in a job and more specifically to a senior academic's contractual right not to have their university or college position terminated without just cause. An entrepreneur is a business person who has possession of an enterprise, or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. Entrepreneurship is often difficult and tricky, resulting in many new ventures failing. A tenurepreneur is a commercially-oriented academic who mitigates the employment risk associated with starting a new enterprise by not giving up their tenured faculty position. While tenure is primarily aimed at guaranteeing academic freedom tenurepreneurship encourages the academic’s access to a degree of commercial freedom serving, in part, to protect academics when they spend time working in commercially unattractive areas of industrial research. One potential cost of a tenurepreneur system is that some tenurepreneurs may not use their commercial freedom for the economic good allowing academics to become commercially unproductive or irrelevant.

1.	http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v26/n10/pdf/nbt1008-1084.pdf