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Human capital has been identified a driver of performance of individuals, firms, and enterprises. However, less is known about how human capital of key individuals would interact with others’ human capital, particularly in the entrepreneurial context where the entrepreneur’s human capital needs to be amplified into a successful venture. We focus on multi-disciplinarity of academic scientists and suggest such attribute of human capital contribute to more entrepreneurial engagements. Multidisciplinarity would influence human capital of the invention team. Finally, knowledge diversity of collaborating firms would positively interact with multi-disciplinarity. Hypotheses were tested using a sample from a major research university.