This study aims to investigate the current situation and risk of innovation and entrepreneurship of science and technology workers. Questionnaire surveys were conducted with a random sample of 18,629 science and technology workers using the National Survey Site of the China Association for Science and Technology. Besides, field research was conducted on 9 technology-based startups and incubators and had interviews with science and technology workers, technology management experts, and entrepreneurial tutors. The study shows that the willingness for entrepreneurship is increasing. However, most science and technology workers stay in a wait-and-see stage and their entrepreneurial actions vary with the implementation of innovation policies. Some potential science and technology entrepreneurs dare not to leave their jobs as they have worries. It is necessary to further crack policy difficulties and institutional obstacles and improve the ecological environment conducive to innovation and entrepreneurship.

science and technology workers  /  innovation and entreprenearship  /  achievement transformation  /  entrepreneurial risk  /  concerns about off-job entrepreneurship