in Hungary. Hungary is an excellent European case since the features of its university system are rooted in the … "academic entrepreneur" (Etzkowitz) university spin-off firm formation has grown naturally from the academic culture of the US … concept academic motivations are main drivers in university spin-off firm formation in the US. Despite this challenging view …

institutions - the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced … technically oriented University of Waterloo, which significantly supported the agglomeration of ICT related companies in the … region and enhanced the reputation of the Waterloo region. Since the beginning of the evolution of the cluster the University …

founded start-up firms in Sweden in the period 2003-2005, a third of whom attended a university, to estimate whether the … affect regional economic development that complements the strong focus on spin-off activities by university researchers in …

University professors in the region, while others are more prone to cooperate supraregional. In the case of professors at …

This paper studies the impact of universities on local innovation activity by exploiting a unique university expansion …, university expansion significantly increases universities’ own innovation capacity, which results in a dramatic boom of local … patents not related to universities. Second, the impact of university expansion on local innovation activities attenuates …