Schutjens, Veronique; Langstraat, Florian; Koster, Sierdjan - European Regional Science Association - 2011
development. This has been acknowledged before: “… we know little about how conversion [between knowledge and technology … commercialization] actually occurs, even though knowledge conversion is at the core of what spin‐offs do…†(Zahra et al., 2007: 570 … metaphor: the knowledge and routines of firms (their ‘DNA’) are partially inherited by their spin‐offs (Boschma et al …