Digital Academic Entrepreneurship: A structured literature review and avenue for a research agenda

•Digital transformation is radically impacting on Academic Entrepreneurship.•Digital Academic Entrepreneurship is defined by a high level of utilization of digital technologies to improve the emerging forms of academic entrepreneurship, such as the development of digital spinoffs and alumni start-ups, the creation of entrepreneurial competence supported by digital platforms and a broader range of innovation development that goes beyond the region.•This paper reviews the Academic Entrepreneurship literature according to the emergence of Digital technologies, providing the state of research and outlining a future research agenda about Digital Academic Entrepreneurship.•Findings show that literature on Digital Academic Entrepreneurship is organized in four major research streams: 1) Digital Technologies for Entrepreneurship Education; 2) The “maker space movement” for Academic Entrepreneurship; 3) Digital technologies for discovering entrepreneurial opportunities; 4) Creating entrepreneurial competences in the Digital “University-based” Entrepreneurial ecosystems. This paper reviews the Academic Entrepreneurship literature according to the emergence of powerful Digital technologies, providing an overview of the state of research and outlining a future research agenda about Digital Academic Entrepreneurship. One hundred and sixty-five journal papers were initially extracted from Scopus and their content was analysed for the paper selection process by two researchers in parallel, plus a third one in case of uncertainty. Finally, fifty-nine papers dealing with digital academic entrepreneurship and published in a variety of academic journals have been analyzed through a content and a bibliometric analysis. Findings show that literature on Digital Academic Entrepreneurship is really scant and dominated by unrelated research. Content analysis provides the emergence of four major research streams: 1) Digital Technologies for Entrepreneurship Education; 2) The “maker space movement” for Academic Entrepreneurship; 3) Digital technologies for discovering entrepreneurial opportunities; 4) Creating entrepreneurial competences in the Digital “University-based” Entrepreneurial ecosystems. The paper presents the first attempt to provide a comprehensive structured literature review of the disruptive role of digital transformation for the Academic Entrepreneurship. Despite the growing literature on Digital Entrepreneurship, this research area is still fragmented and undertheo