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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams

Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Huang, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal … cohorts, students were allowed to choose their teams from among students in their section (roughly 90 students). In other … cohorts, students were randomly assigned to teams based upon a computer algorithm. In the cohorts that were allowed to choose …

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University Invention, Entrepreneurship, and Start-Ups

Chukumba, Celestine - 2005

This paper develops a game-theoretic model that predicts when a university invention is commercialized in a start-up firm rather than an established firm. The model predicts that university inventions are more likely to occur in start-ups when the technology transfer officers (TTOs) search cost...

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Getting Schooled : The Role of Universities in Attracting Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Immigrant founders of venture capital-backed companies have been critical to the entrepreneurial ecosystem. We document the channels through which immigrant founders find their way to the United States and how those channels have changed over time. Immigrants have been an important source of...

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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege

Damsgaard, Erika Farnstrand - 2012

This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh Dole Act gives universities the right to own inventions from publicly funded research,...

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