Proportion, Type, and Characteristics of Physician Entrepreneurship in Massachusetts.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Although there have been signs of increasing interest in entrepreneurship among physicians as well as claims of a paucity of entrepreneurial activity in health care in general, there is little systematic evidence of the extent, type, and characteristics of entrepreneurship by physicians. Physician involvement in entrepreneurship may result in more innovative and financially successful health care companies.

Objective

To evaluate the proportion and characteristics of physicians who founded new businesses and the types of businesses that they started.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study was conducted by matching all 33 770 physicians holding a Massachusetts medical license in 2017 with the Massachusetts new business registration recor

SUBMITTER: Greenblatt WH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7788471 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature