Edith Penrose’s theory of firm growth postulates that a firm’s current growth rate will be influenced by the adjustment costs of, and changes to a firm’s productive opportunity set arising from, previous growth. Although she explicitly considered the impact of previous organic growth on...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which institutional origin has an impact on the resource endowments of science-based entrepreneurial firms, which are founded from the research base developed at public research organisations. Investigation of the potential explanatory...

Analyzes the effects of entrepreneurial team dynamics onthe performance of academic spinoffs. First, the definition of entrepreneurialteams is offered, and the link between team structure and performance isexamined. Next, data from a detailed field study of ten academic spinoffs inFlanders are...