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The Effectiveness of University Knowledge Spillovers : Performance Differences between University Spinoffs and Corporate Spinoffs

Wennberg, Karl; Wiklund, Johan; Wright, Mike - 2013

While much prior research has focused upon how Technology Transfer Offices and other contextual characteristics shape the level of university spinoffs (USO), there is little research on entrepreneurial potential among individual academics, and to the best of our knowledge, no comparative studies...

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The Transformation of Network Ties to Develop Entrepreneurial Competencies for University Spin-Offs

Rasmussen, Einar - 2016

Social networks are integral to the emergence and development of new ventures but the temporal utility of networks is poorly understood. We consider the initial development of four university spin-offs and examine the formation and development of network ties to construct valuable...

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Private Equity, Buy-Outs and Insolvency Risk

Wilson, Nick - 2011

set comprising the population of over eight million company year observations and 153,000 instances of insolvency covering … formal insolvency proceedings than other firms and how this varies over the economic cycle. Controlling for size, age, sector … and macro-economic conditions (base hazard) we find that private-equity backed buyouts are no more prone to insolvency …

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Digital Affordances, Spatial Affordances, and the Genesis of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Autio, Erkko - 2017

Entrepreneurial ecosystems command increasing attention from policy-makers, academics, and practitioners, yet the phenomenon itself remains under-theorized. Specifically, the conceptual similarities and differences of entrepreneurial ecosystems relative to, e.g., clusters, ‘knowledge...

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Entrepreneurship : An Assessment

Mayer, Colin - 2018

This article reviews evidence of the impact of entrepreneurship on job creation, gender and race discrimination, university spinoffs, growth, economic geography, finance and the public sector. It defines entrepreneurship, corrects some conventional wisdoms about it and discusses policy...

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International Entrepreneurship : Managerial and Policy Implications

Cumming, Douglas J.; Sapienza, Harry J.; Siegel, Donald S. - 2009

This paper provides an overview of the literature on international entrepreneurship (henceforth, IE). In doing so, we adopt a broad perspective on IE, consistent with the notion that entrepreneurship refers to how opportunities to create future goods and services are discovered, evaluated and...

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