Abstract:     Academic entrepreneurship encompasses various types and serves as a significant mechanism for driving the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Investigating the origins, interrelations, and transformation mechanisms of academic entrepreneurship holds vital theoretical and policy implications. This study employed a case study approach and drew upon such theories as role identification, attention-based view, and resource orchestration to explain the reasons for the diversity in academic entrepreneurship from three aspects: attention allocation structure, resource allocation methods and behavior. From a dynamic process perspective, it investigated the relationship between role reconstruction and academic entrepreneurial behavior. The results revealed that different types of academic entrepreneurship can be defined by three-dimensional characteristics, namely, the role identity of academic entrepreneurs, their attention focus, and resource allocation methods. The self-identity of academic entrepreneurs stands as the fundamental determinant of their academic entrepreneurial behavior. Academic entrepreneurship is a dynamic process, and academic entrepreneurs drive role reconstruction while engaging with and understanding the market, ultimately selecting an appropriate academic entrepreneurial approach. In the process of role reconstruction, value orientations and the transformation of resource allocation patterns lead to shifts in the specific modes of academic entrepreneurship. This study innovatively constructed an analysis model to explain the reasons for the diversity of academic entrepreneurship models and the internal correlation of various models, described the timing characteristics and driving mechanism of the transformation of academic entrepreneurship models, deepened the understanding of the development law of academic entrepreneurship, thus having some reference values for further optimizing the policy environment of academic entrepreneurship.

Key words: academic entrepreneurship, role identification, attention-based view, resource orchestration