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...

Young technology ventures are strongly affected by technological environmental conditions. In the light of opportunity theory, this study focuses on the interaction of a young firm's technological base and the pace of technological development in its field. It distinguishes three technological...

For decades, entrepreneurship and strategy research has been dominated by agent-centric and inward-looking theoretical perspectives. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the limits of this stance, as its influence on business has been both enormous and palpable. For the most part, the...

The aim of this study is to provide a wide-ranging view of the benefits and obstacles of cooperation between University Research Centres. To do so, the four dimensions associated with knowledge transfer, choice of partners, culture and financing were considered. A qualitative approach was...

Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler an Hochschulen verfügen über ein hohes Maß an innovativem Wissen, das die ideale Ausgangsbasis für eine Unternehmensgründung darstellen kann. Bisher fehlte jedoch eine umfassende empirische Analyse, inwieweit die bestehenden Rahmenbedingungen...

This study examines the effect of agglomeration and localized knowledge spillover on reward-based crowdfunding outcomes in the United States. By examining art projects specifically, we can measure how creative projects benefit from agglomeration or clustering, measured by the proportion of...

This research examines how startup founders' academic knowledge, and knowledge gained through startup founding experience, signal investors and attract investments. We further examine, for both financed and non-financed startups, whether these signals are associated with the startup's...

We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two...

Previous studies suggest that entrepreneurial activity tends to be greater in contexts where investment in new knowledge is relatively high (e.g., entrepreneurial universities). However, in this specific knowledge context, only a few academics recognize opportunities and act on them through...

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...