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A Procedural Perspective on Academic Spin-Off Creation : The Changing Relevance of Academic and Commercial Logics

Cantner, Uwe; Doerr, Philipp; Göthner, Maximilian; … - 2022

We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to successfully found their firm. However, along this...

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The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research

Borghans, Lex - 2009

Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and higher education in Europe and investigate potential...

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Who Founds? An Analysis of University and Corporate Startup Entrepreneurs Based on Danish Register Data

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2019

We compare individuals presently employed either at an university or at a firm from a R&D intensive sector and analyze which of their personal-specific and employer-specific characteristics determine their choice of subsequently founding a startup. Our data set is unusually rich and combines the...

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A Study of Academic Entrepreneurs Using Venture Capital Data

Zhang, Junfu - 2007

Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to … about two-thirds of the academic entrepreneurs locate their businesses in the same state as their universities. National … near the university has no significant effect on academic entrepreneurship …

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Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups : First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008

Fackler, Daniel - 2013

Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and initially employ more skilled and more experienced workers than other startups. Controlling for these and other differences, we find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than...

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Entrepreneurship : Origins and Returns

Berglann, Helge - 2009

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

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The Academic Origins of Economics Faculty

Jones, Todd; Sloan, Arielle - 2022

well as the type of research produced. We find that faculty educated at top-ranked Ph.D. universities are overrepresented …

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The 'Gravity' of Quality : Research Quality and Universities' Attractiveness in Italy

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2017

regressed on several universities' research quality indicators computed from different bibliometric databases (ISI …

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Leadership and the Research Productivity of University Departments

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2014

on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities over a 15-year period. There is one robust predictor of a department …

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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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