This study examines the impact of regional competitiveness on the innovative activity of entrepreneurial firms. Based on a unique and hand collected data set of publicly listed high technology start-ups and university regions, this paper tests how regional competitiveness and university...

In recent years, the significance of geography among firms has declined due to the introduction of electronic methods of communication. However, with the increasing presence of the biotechnology industry, with its affiliated university-based scientists, the issue of geography is proposed as a...

Compares Jaffe's work on the use of patents as a measure of the spillover of university research with the work of Acs and Audretsch in which innovation activity is measured by number of innovations. Jaffe's work, which modified the knowledge production function proposed by Griliches, showed a...

Providing an important and timely overview of research in the field of entrepreneurship in biotechnology, The Handbook of Bioentrepreneurship examines one of the most promising industries of the 21st century. While genetically engineered foods and biopharmaceuticals have made biotechnology part...

This book aims to bring together different contributions highlighting how the recent changes that modify universities’ activities, such as the necessity to internationalize and crucially rely on third party funding, and the new entrepreneurial trajectories stemming from the recent...