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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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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege
Damsgaard, Erika Farnstrand - 2012
This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty … commercialization; entrepreneurship or licenses to established firms, as well as on probabilities of successful commercialization. We … find that the US system is less conducive to entrepreneurship than the Swedish system if established firms have some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460679
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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program
Toole, Andrew A. - 2005
entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467229
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More than an Ivory Tower : The Impact of Research Institutions on the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship
Tartari, Valentina; Stern, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
ecosystems. Assessing the impact of research institutions on entrepreneurship is challenging, given that these institutions are … measure both the quantity and quality-adjusted quantity of entrepreneurship at the zip-code level on an annual basis. We then … the quality-adjusted quantity of entrepreneurship. In contrast, increases in non-research funding to universities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533395
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533322
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Who is Selling the Ivory Tower? Sources of Growth in University Licensing
Thursby, Jerry G. - 2000
Historically, commercial use of university research has been viewed in terms of spillovers. Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in technology transfer through licensing as universities attempt to appropriate the returns from faculty research. This change has prompted concerns regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471043
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Academic Engagement, Commercialization, and Scholarship : Empirical Evidence from Agricultural and Life Scientists at U.S. Land-grant Universities
Barham, Bradford L. - 2020
This article examines the involvement of agricultural and life science faculty at U.S. land grant universities in two types of university-industry relations: academic engagement (sponsored research, industry collaborations, and presentations), academic commercialization (patenting, licensing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479212
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Public Universities : The Supply Side of Building a Skilled Workforce
Bound, John - 2019
Over the past few decades, public universities have faced significant declines in state funding per student. We investigate whether these declines affected the educational and research outcomes of these schools. We present evidence that declining funding induced public universities to shift...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479895
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Linguistic Metrics for Patent Disclosure : Evidence from University Versus Corporate Patents
Kong, Nancy - 2020
This paper proposes a novel approach to measure disclosure in patent applications using algorithms from computational linguistics. Borrowing methods from the literature on second language acquisition, we analyze core linguistic features of 40,949 U.S. applications in three patent categories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481106
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The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research
Borghans, Lex - 2009
Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and higher education in Europe and investigate potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463432