Abstract
This paper aims at investigating the academician behavioral intention on innovation commercialization
through a comprehensive analysis of Systematic Literature Review (SLR). During the COVID-19 pandemic
era, world economic had faced severe of impact with challengingly. In consequences, the
commercialization of innovation outputs could lead significant benefits for nation especially while
economic recovery period. One of the main active contributors of new innovation is a researcher among
academician. Therefore, human behavior studies are needed to identify the influence factors that affect
academicians in developing countries during this world pandemic era. This SLR analysis used three
databases namely Scopus, Web of Science and EBSCOhost for selecting articles published starting 2014
until 2021. There had 178 articles were identified, only 43 articles were selected as the final set based on
the inclusion criteria. Majority of the articles (31/43) were adopted to determine the key drivers of
academicians’ intention toward university technology commercialization, whereas the smaller portions
of articles (12/43) were conducted meta-analysis among them. Based on the result of SLR, indicated that
most often applied key drivers in past studies are personal attitude, subjective norm and perceived
behavioral control accordingly. The meta-analysis also found that all these factors gave low effect on
academician commercialization intention. A few of recommendations toward university, government
and future studies were purposed at the end of paper, which expect to enhance the success of university
technology commercialization in Malaysia.