What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of commercializing research from top U.S. universities; however, prior work has little to say on the particular advantages of startup ventures in the innovation process relative to more...

Growing opportunities for academic scientists to commercialize their science has led to a new commercial marketplace. Recent evidence suggests that commercial science participation is characterized by gender stratification. Using interviews with life science faculty at one high-status university...

Using a nested multiple-case study of participating ventures, directors, and mentors of eight of the original U.S. accelerators we explore how accelerators' program designs influence new ventures' ability to access, interpret, and process the external information needed to survive and grow....