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Wages in high-tech start-ups : do academic spin-offs pay a wage premium?
Dorner, Matthias; Fryges, Helmut; Schopen, Kathrin - 2015
Due to their origin from universities, academic spin‐offs operate at the forefront of the technological development. Therefore, spin‐offs exhibit a skill‐biased labour demand, i.e. spin‐offs have a high demand for employees with cutting edge knowledge and technical skills. In order to...
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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2014
This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428152
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Human capital and successful academic spin-off
Müller, Bettina (contributor) - 2006
Academic spin-offs are one way in which employability of university graduates is reflected. Using the ZEW spinoff-survey, this paper studies empirically the impact of human capital on the success of academic spinoffs founding in knowledge and technology intensive sectors. The focus is thereby on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003401047
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Biomedical academic entrepreneurship through the SBIR program
Toole, Andrew A. (contributor); Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor) - 2005
This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic … 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/10003025585
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Life scientist mobility from academe to industry : does academic entrepreneurship induce a costly "brain drain" on the not-for-profit research sector?
Toole, Andrew A. (contributor); Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor) - 2007
who start or join for-profit firms using information from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607671
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Access to research inputs : open science versus the entrepreneurial university
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Grimpe, Christoph; Pellens, Maikel - 2014
The viability of modern open science norms and practices depend on public disclosure of new knowledge, methods, and materials. However, increasing industry funding of research can restrict the dissemination of results and materials. We show, through a survey sample of 837 German scientists in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258809
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Is there a trade-off between academic research and faculty entrepreneurship? : evidence from U.S. NIH supported biomedical researchers
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Toole, Andrew A. - 2009
they pursue entrepreneurship in the private sector, however, their scholarly productivity falls. Those entrepreneurial … journal publications. -- academic entrepreneurship ; SBIR ; NIH ; biomedical research ; life scientist productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003835125
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Does interdisciplinarity lead to higher employment growth of academic spinoffs?
Müller, Bettina - 2009
. -- human capital ; entrepreneurship ; academic spinoffs ; employment growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919042
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University spin-off's transfer speed : analyzing the time from leaving university to venture
Müller, Kathrin (contributor) - 2008
For academic spin-off's I analyze the length of time between the founder's leaving of academia and the establishment of his firm. Technology transfer can take place even years after leaving the mother institution. A duration analysis reveals that a longer time-lag is caused by the necessity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721816
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Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity
Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2010
University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796153