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We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to successfully found their firm. However, along this...
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We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...
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no more successful than non-university spin-offs; (vii) universities constitute important collaboration partners and …
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Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to … about two-thirds of the academic entrepreneurs locate their businesses in the same state as their universities. National … near the university has no significant effect on academic entrepreneurship. …
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We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda … during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a randomized controlled trial, we estimate sizeable effects of the 6-week training on …
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In line with the growing relevance of higher education and science for societal development and innovation processes, there has been a steady increase in the salience of interrelations with the extra-academic environment in the context of academics' work. Insights into the status of this...
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performance of young individuals in tertiary education. We focus on entrepreneurship education as an ideal subject for … academic achievement through several indicators, both right after the end of the entrepreneurship course (short run) and at the …
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The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many … developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda's entrepreneurship education reform in … controlled trial, we evaluated a three-year intensive training for entrepreneurship teachers, finding pedagogical changes as …
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The external circumstances for universities have been changing rapidly. In order to be competitive, survive, and … flourish, universities have shown a growing enthusiasm to generate financial revenues externally. The literature refers to this … explores the determinants of financial rewards of universities sources from industry-university collaboration in South Korea …
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regressed on several universities' research quality indicators computed from different bibliometric databases (ISI …
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