Organizational fields in the aggregate constitute a recognized area of institutional life. In Turkey, Sabanci University (SU) has shaped the emerging organizational field of technology-based academic entrepreneurship significantly. SU founded the second technology transfer office, Research and Graduate Policy Directorate (RGP), in Turkey. In essence, RGP acts as an interface between the academic and business world according the demands of the business world with the research of the academic world. However, RGP went further and founded the first technology commercialization company, Inovent, providing a business view to researchers and helping them get patents, found companies, and transfer their knowledge to the business world. Furthermore, Golden Horn Ventures was the second venture capital firm to spin out from Inovent. Subsequently, other universities started founding technology transfer offices and companies like Inovent. Overall, this paper is an explorative research, which will provide the detailed case of the shaping of an organizational field in a developing country by a dominant actor, in other words, the role of SU in creating technology-based academic entrepreneurship in Turkey.