We investigated how and when parent hostility (degree to which a parent firm disapproves the spawning of an own spin-out) affects spin-out performance and how spin-outs can effectively react to it. Analyses of 144 technology spin-outs support our arguments that spin-outs suffer from hostility....

Universities increasingly offer entrepreneurship education, in order to sensitize and qualify students for entrepreneurship as a career option and, ultimately, to raise the number of academic start-ups. However, to date we have relatively little evidence on the effectiveness of such offers....

This study examines how the effect of entrepreneurship education on students' entrepreneurial intentions is (1) contingent on the mode of education (active, e.g. business plan seminar, vs reflective, e.g. theory lectures), (2) contingent on the regional context and (3) complemented by...

This study examines how the extent of entrepreneurship education within university departments influences students entrepreneurial intentions (and its drivers: attitude to the behavior, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control). Specifically, it proposes that the effect of such...