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What drives patenting and commerzialisation activity at East German universities? The role of new public policy, institutional environment and individual prior knowledge
Grimm, Heike; Jaenicke, Johannes - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 37 (2012) 4, pp. 454-477
New public policy enacted in Germany in 2002, intends to increase the number of patent registrations of academic entrepreneurs, and facilitate the commercialization and spillover of innovation generated at public universities. Results from a survey amongst university patentees in two new German...
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“To have and have not”: founders’ human capital and university start-up survival
Criaco, Giuseppe; Minola, Tommaso; Migliorini, Pablo; … - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 39 (2014) 4, pp. 567-593
emergence of University Start-Ups (USU) and their survival as a particular dimension of performance represents a relevant …
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University spin-offs and the “performance premium”
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 2, pp. 309-326
larger stream of social benefits than industry start-ups, a performance premium. This paper outlines the arguments explaining … the existence of a performance premium using a sample of German start-up companies. We find that university spin …-offs exhibit a performance premium of 3.4 % points higher employment growth over industry start-ups. The analysis also shows that …
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University spinoffs and the 'performance premium'
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
larger stream of social benefits than industry startups, a performance premium. This paper outlines the arguments why the … existence of a performance premium using a sample of German startup companies. We find that university spinoffs exhibit a … performance premium of 3.4 percentage points higher employment growth over industry startups. The analysis also shows that the …
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Exploring the Relationship Between Scientist Human Capital and Firm Performance: The Case of Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurs in the SBIR Program
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 1, pp. 101-114
contributes to firm performance. This debate centers on the nature of an academic scientist's human capital and its institutional … analyzes how the depth of their scientifically and commercially oriented academic human capital contributes to firm performance … an academic scientist's human capital have differential effects on the performance of research and invention tasks at the …
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The Internationalization of Science and its Influence on Academic Entrepreneurship
Krabel, Stefan; Siegel, Donald S.; Slavtchev, Viktor - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We conjecture that the mobility of academic scientists increases the propensity of such agents to engage in academic entrepreneurship. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of researchers at the Max Planck Society in Germany. We find that mobile scientists are more likely to become nascent...
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Scientists’ transition to academic entrepreneurship: Economic and psychological determinants
Goethner, Maximilian; Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, … - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 3, pp. 628-641
This study investigated academic scientists’ transition to entrepreneurship by studying their academic entrepreneurial intentions (to found a business in order to market their research knowledge) and actual founding behavior. We developed and tested a conceptual model integrating both economic...
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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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 necessarily...
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Disentangling effort and performance: a renewed look at gender differences in commercializing medical school research
Colyvas, Jeannette; Snellman, Kaisa; Bercovitz, Janet; … - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 37 (2012) 4, pp. 478-489
regards to gender to the use of outcome measures that capture both behavior and performance, and the inclusion of a more …Recently, questions about gender gaps in science have extended to academic technology transfer. Using systematic data … on US medical school faculty, we capture both behavior and performance, examining the hypothesis that women are less …
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Approaching the Agora - Determinants of Scientists' Intentions to Purse Academic Entrepreneurship
Goethner, Maximilian; Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
scientists' sense of identification with these peers. A mediation analysis further indicates that gender-related differences in …
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