The Governance of Knowledge in Academic Spin-offs

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 new business firms by the inventors. At the same time to remain viable and competitive the firm will need to either possess or develop a complex mix of tangible and intangible resources. This work studies the process of firm evolution by looking at the governance mechanisms within and across a Regional sample of ASOs throughout the different stages of their development path....

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Year of publication:	2010-03-01
Authors:	Rizzo, Ugo
Institutions:	Manchester Business School
Subject:	Wissensmanagement \| Organisationstheorie \| organization theory \| Technologiemanagement \| technology management \| Governance \| Unternehmensentwicklung

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Extent:	280576 bytes 35 p. application/pdf
Series:	Manchester Business School - Reserach - Working Papers Working Paper ; No. 593 (2010)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	Specific management methods ; Theory of organisation ; Corporate growth, plant size and choice of location ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)