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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 … higher education in Europe and investigate potential explanations for the strong increase in its international orientation …

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

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2019

startup entrepreneurs, (ii) common factors triggering startup activity of both university and corporate employees are …We compare individuals presently employed either at an university or at a firm from a R&D intensive sector and analyze … 2001-2012. We show that (i) there are overall little differences between the characteristics of university and corporate …

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College Openings and Local Economic Development

Berlingieri, Francesco; Gathmann, Christina; … - 2022

We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The new college substantially increased the student population and share of high-skilled...

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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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The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders

Winkler, Anne E. - 2012

This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...

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The Effect of Migration on Income Growth and Convergence : Meta-Analytic Evidence

Ozgen, Ceren - 2009

We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...

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Digital Entrepreneurship Research : A Concise Introduction

Naudé, Wim - 2020

digital economy, digital entrepreneurs pursue opportunities to produce and trade in digital artifacts on digital artifact … for more research on digital entrepreneurship.As such, this paper provides an overview of the central research questions … currently being pursued in this field. These include questions such as: What is digital entrepreneurship? What is different in …

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The Academic Origins of Economics Faculty

Jones, Todd; Sloan, Arielle - 2022

; e.g., over half of our sample attended a top 15 university, and over a third attended a top six university. We find … university …

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

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2017

This paper investigates whether or not research quality is significantly associated with a university's ability to … attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003–2011 are …

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