Academic entrepreneurship currently features as a leading topic in the field of entrepreneurship. This research study aims to carry out bibliometric analysis on this topic through recourse to cluster analysis. We carried out extensive search (1971–2017) of the Web of Science database that identified seven clusters in the literature: entrepreneurial universities, university–industry interactions, university–industry knowledge transfers, university–industry innovation networks, university entrepreneurship, university–industry industrial property and innovation ecosystems. This study reinforces the coherence and scientific structure of the existing literature and serves as a starting point for other studies on this field. We close with debate about the future research agenda for academic entrepreneurship.