Academic Entrepreneurship: spin-offs in Sweden and the UK Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand CIRCLE, Lund University PO Box 117, SE-221 00 Lund Sweden Email: Asa.Lindholm_Dahlstrand@circle.lu.se Helen Lawton Smith Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street, Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX, UK Email: ubtm188@mail.bbk.ac.uk Nabhassorn Baines Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street, Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX, UK Email: nsrikasem@yahoo.com