Academic entrepreneur, university spin-off growth, career attitude, career path, growth intention. - Akademische Gründer, Wachstum universitärer Ausgründungen, Karriereeinstellung, Karrierepfad, Wachstumseinstellung

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Unternehmensaktivitäten des TechnologieZentrum Koblenz (TZK) seit Gründung analysiert. Insbesondere werden die Entwicklungsverläufe der einzelnen Unternehmen des TZK über die Jahre analysiert und untersucht, in welchem Maße die Unternehmen des TZK zur...

Recently collected data show that, within any manufacturing industry, vertically integrated firms tend to have larger, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a weak contracting environment characteristic of...

We investigated how and when parent hostility (degree to which a parent firm disapproves the spawning of an own spin-out) affects spin-out performance and how spin-outs can effectively react to it. Analyses of 144 technology spin-outs support our arguments that spin-outs suffer from hostility....

This study examines how different organizational learning strategies (i.e., exploration or exploitation) impact the sales growth of technology spin-outs, and the role of the parent firm in this context. Using knowledge-based and learning views of the firm, we propose that spin-out performance...

"This book seeks to fill the gap in research between universities and the public, and offers cutting-edge insight into the current state of the field, charting a course that moves from discussions of academic resistance and implications for knowledge-transfer theory to current case-studies of...