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In the modern knowledge economy, Higher Education Institutions are being required to operate more entrepreneurially, commercializing the results of their research and spinning out new, knowledge-based enterprises. However, the possibility to engage in entrepreneurial behaviours varies...
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This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...
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skills that compose their human capital and how are these skills related to firm performance? This paper examines these … performance that correlate with differences in the scientists? research orientations developed during their academic careers. We … significantly improve their firms? performance of research tasks such as ?proof of concept? studies. Biomedical academic …
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We conjecture that the mobility of academic scientists increases the propensity of such agents to engage in academic entrepreneurship. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of researchers at the Max Planck Society in Germany. We find that mobile scientists are more likely to become nascent...
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This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that 'scientific absorptive capacity' at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not necessarily...
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larger stream of social benefits than industry startups, a performance premium. This paper outlines the arguments why the … existence of a performance premium using a sample of German startup companies. We find that university spinoffs exhibit a … performance premium of 3.4 percentage points higher employment growth over industry startups. The analysis also shows that the …
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larger stream of social benefits than industry startups, a performance premium. This paper outlines the arguments why the … existence of a performance premium using a sample of German startup companies. We find that university spinoffs exhibit a … performance premium of 3.4 percentage points higher employment growth over industry startups. The analysis also shows that the …
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