Purpose – The paper is concerned with spin‐off firms and the process by which a new firm is created and formed from a university. The objectives are to examine characteristics of firms generated by this process, and the intensity of the spin‐off firms' network activity with the parent...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the spatial organisation of the open innovation model in the wine industry in Canada. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs a micro‐firm level survey among 146 wine firms in Canada. Descriptive and...