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Financial signalling by innovative nascent entrepreneurs
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009
External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the project´s feasibility. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266651
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Financial Signaling by Innovative Nascent Entrepreneurs
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the project's feasibility. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090597
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Innovative start-up patenting: A new approach towards identification and determinants
Wolf, Tina - 2013
been few attempts to assess this group of firms´ propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to … undercounting of small firm patenting, which has been a feature of most of the earlier studies. A data set is used that comprises … of the zero-inflated negative binomial regression analysis suggest that patenting is an activity of science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323900
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Innovative start-up patenting: a new approach towards identification and determinants
Wolf, Tina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
been few attempts to assess this group of firms' propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to … undercounting of small firm patenting, which has been a feature of most of the earlier studies. A data set is used that comprises … of the zero-inflated negative binomial regression analysis suggest that patenting is an activity of science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661183
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Initiation of knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry: Opportunity recognition and transfer channel choice
Huegel, Matthias; Dörr, Philip; Kalthaus, Martin - 2023
The transfer of knowledge and technology from academia to industry is usually understood as a process. While previous research focuses on phenomena along the process and its outcomes, the starting point of the process - the initiation of a transfer activity - remains unstudied. We provide first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014471663
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Cross-faculty proximity and academic entrepreneurship: The role of business schools
Goethner, Maximilian; Wyrwich, Michael - 2017
Over the past decades, entrepreneurial activity has started to be considered a third mission of higher education institutions. Our study examines the extent to which entrepreneurship at universities is driven by spatial proximity between university faculties. To this end, we use a new dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788775
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We need to talk: Or do we? Geographic distance and the commercialization of technologies from public research
Bünstorf, Guido; Schacht, Alexander - 2011
Using a new dataset with detailed geographic information about licensing activities of the Max Planck Society, Germany's largest non-university public research organization, we analyze how the probability and magnitude of commercial success are affected by geographic distance between licensors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281629
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We need to talk - or do we? Geographic distance and the commercialization of technologies from public research
Buenstorf, Guido; Schacht, Alexander - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using a new dataset with detailed geographic information about licensing activities of the Max Planck Society, Germany's largest non-university public research organization, we analyze how the probability and magnitude of commercial success are affected by geographic distance between licensors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391905
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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities
Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012
This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the short-term (immediately after graduation) and in the long-term (five years after graduation). A difference-in-differences approach is applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291811
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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291847