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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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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

We use roster data of 96 top U.S. economics departments to document the academic origins of their tenure-track faculty. Academic origins may have implications for how undergraduate (B.A.) and doctoral (Ph.D.) students are trained and placed, as well as the type of research produced. We find that...

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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 regressed on several universities' research quality...

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Leadership and the Research Productivity of University Departments

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2014

Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...

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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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A Firm Scientific Community : Industry Participation and Knowledge Diffusion

Baruffaldi, Stefano Horst - 2020

We study the diffusion of knowledge from scientists to firms within scientific communities. We build on a unique dataset on conference proceedings as "paper trail" of almost all relevant conference series in computer science since 1996. More than 5000 firms appear as conference sponsors or as...

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Does Higher Education Make You More Entrepreneurial? Causal Evidence from China

Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu - 2021

Using the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we estimate the effect of higher education on entrepreneurship … education are less likely to enter entrepreneurship in general, obtaining any qualification beyond the baseline of compulsory …

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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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