Early work on technical entrepreneurs tended to portray the technical entrepreneur as an academic in a university or a researcher in a non-profit-making laboratory who had set up on his/her own, giving rise to what some have described as the ‘scientist entrepreneur’. This model implied an entrepreneur as someone with little or no business experience and business knowledge. Later work (cooper, 1971) extended the analysis to include entrepreneurs who had worked for large industrial concerns and therefore did have a business background. This has generally been the view of technical entrepreneurs that has prevailed. Only recently has the analysis been extended further. Work by Jones-Evans suggests that in fact technical entrepreneurs come from a more diverse range of backgrounds than hitherto noted.