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Academic spin-offs for the local economy growth [PDF]
Corporate Ownership and Control, 2017 Some research supports the suggestion that start-ups can represent a driver in job creation, economic growth, innovation and competitiveness. In the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan and in the Action Plan on Building a Capital Market Union (2015), one of the main actions is promoting entrepreneurship, to support financing innovation for start-ups, to ...
Ada Carlesi +2 more
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Opportunity recognition in academic spin‐offs: a contingency approach [PDF]
R&D Management, 2023 This paper analyses the factors that influence opportunity recognition (OR) of academic spin‐offs (ASOs) from a contingency perspective. We focus on factors linked to the academic entrepreneur and propose that their relevance for explaining OR in ASOs depends on the context in which these firms operate: discovery (the necessary information for ...
Carmen Camelo‐Ordaz +3 more
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Do they matter? The role of non-academics in the internationalization of academic spin-offs [PDF]
Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 2016 Internationalization and academic entrepreneurship have been receiving a lot of attention not only in academic research but also in policy practice. While academic spin-offs suffer from limited resources and lack of entrepreneurial skills, they often penetrate international market through their innovative products and technology since the very early ...
Noelia Franco-Leal +2 more
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Are academic spin-offs really doing science? [PDF]
, 2008 "Organisations make an indispensable contribution to reproducing functional systems. Can this also be said of organisations with multiple systemic ties? In considering this issue, this paper looks at the example of academic spin-offs. On the basis of qualitative interviews with people involved in founding spin-offs from non-university research ...
Potthast, Jörg, Guggenheim, Michael
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The Governance of Knowledge in Academic Spin-Offs [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 The aim of the present work is to study the evolution of organizational knowledge within Academic Spin-off (ASO) firms throughout their life cycle. The exploitation of tacit and indivisible new knowledge developed in the context of academic institutions entails agency problems of different nature; one way to address such challenges is the creation of ...
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BUILDING A UNIVERSITY FOUNDERS ORIENTED SPIN-OFF RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
Innovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences, 2015 To understand the impact of university founders on (university) spin-offs' success, we must first understand the roles (and functions) of founders, how university founders move through different roles and what is their level of engagement. In the present
Dolores Modic
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Open Source Web Platform for the Analysis of Academic Spin-offs
Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Business Intelligence, 2018 Universities have assumed an increasingly important role in transferring technology to society with a strong economic impact. The companies originated from the academic environment, called academic spin-offs, have fostered the appearance of new projects ...
Fernando Almeida, Eugénio Cunha
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Academic Entrepreneurship Education: Does Gender Matter? [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 Academic entrepreneurship education aims to train and raise awareness amongst students about entrepreneurial activity, thereby increasing the number of academic start-ups and spin-offs.
Justus Xenia
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Academic Entrepreneurship: Spin-offs in Sweden and the UK [PDF]
, 2016 Discussions of academic entrepreneurship often focus on efforts to commercialize inventions appropriated within the intellectual property (IP) system. However, studies in the U.S. have shown that a substantial amount of entrepreneurship happens outside of the formal IP system. In the UK each university sets its own rules on ownership of IP.
Baines, N. +2 more
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Growth and venture capital investment potential for university spin-offs in Hungary
Apstract: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2013 Venture backed spin-offs represent a low proportion of companies, even of innovative companies. The research question was, whether these companies have an important role in innovation and economic growth.
Patrícia Becsky-Nagy
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