Academic entrepreneurship (AE) has gained widespread acclaim globally for bridging the gap between academia and industry, as well as addressing the issue of socio-economic inclusion and the impact of research. In this paper, we both relate to, and extend scholarly work in the domains of AE and social inclusion by investigating the process of AE from an interplay of institutional logics perspective, with an emphasis on the diversity strands to which academic entrepreneurs belong. Drawing on extensive fieldwork of 55 academic researchers affiliated with 6 UK universities, our findings highlight the co-existence of profession, science logic and market logic, combined with the new logics that we introduce—diversity and impact logics—in capturing value through AE for addressing social inclusion. We make an empirical and theoretical contribution by demonstrating the instrumentality of these logics as enablers and constraints on the process of AE. We also advance the theory on logics and AE by demonstrating how the intersection of logics creates different kinds of salient points and pressures for academics and university policy makers. Closely linked to this, we make policy contributions by putting forward policy insights that are bottom-up and tailored based on a thorough understanding of the experiences and views of academic entrepreneurs.

学术创业（AE）因其弥合学术界和工业界之间的差距以及解决社会经济包容性和研究影响问题而在全球范围内获得广泛赞誉。在本文中，我们通过从制度逻辑相互作用的角度研究 AE 的过程，重点关注学术企业家所属的多样性，从而涉及并扩展了 AE 和社会包容领域的学术工作。基于来自 6 所英国大学的 55 名学术研究人员的广泛实地调查，我们的研究结果强调了专业、科学逻辑和市场逻辑的共存，并结合我们引入的新逻辑（多样性和影响力逻辑），通过 AE 获取价值解决社会包容问题。我们通过证明这些逻辑作为 AE 过程的推动者和约束的工具性，做出了实证和理论贡献。我们还通过展示逻辑的交叉如何为学者和大学政策制定者创造不同类型的要点和压力来推进逻辑和 AE 理论。与此密切相关，我们在深入了解学术企业家的经验和观点的基础上，提出自下而上、量身定制的政策见解，从而做出政策贡献。