Starting a company is about 1% interesting stuff, with the rest going to grunt work, marketing, meetings, etc. ad nauseum.
Staying within academia is up to about 25% interesting stuff, sometimes more, with the rest going to teaching / outreach / departmental involvement / begging for grant money. If you enjoy teaching, interesting stuff can be 40 or 50 percent, sometimes more.
If anything, the IP workflow for collaborations bridging the gap out of academia needs to be improved. Take the horror show that is the US patent system and convolve that with university bureaucracy - it's not pretty.
Staying within academia is up to about 25% interesting stuff, sometimes more, with the rest going to teaching / outreach / departmental involvement / begging for grant money. If you enjoy teaching, interesting stuff can be 40 or 50 percent, sometimes more.
If anything, the IP workflow for collaborations bridging the gap out of academia needs to be improved. Take the horror show that is the US patent system and convolve that with university bureaucracy - it's not pretty.