The creation of spinoffs by academic-inventors stimulates economic development and develops state-of-the-art technology (Shane, 2004). In this exploratory study, we examine why academicinventors commercialize inventions through the creation of a start-up. Drawing on data from a sample of 327...

Learning theory and an attention-based view of the firm are used to examine how an independent firm's degree of internationalization, age at first international entry, and entrepreneurial orientation are related to the attention it devotes to learning activities in international and domestic...

Examines the process by which entrepreneurial teamsselect new members. First, a review of two existing explanations for new memberaddition is offered. In the first theory, addition is viewed as a rationalprocess driven by economic, instrumental considerations. The second explanationsets...