of SCUs with reference to the transfer of knowledge between start-ups and large companies in collaborative innovation … collaborative innovation processes involving start-ups by studying the knowledge-broker role played by SCUs in the complex network … collaboration with start-ups within their corporate innovation ecosystems (CIEs). The purpose of this study is to analyze the role …

We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education … different indicators for these types of knowledge, the strongest effects are found for the number of professors, followed by the … the regional knowledge stock than the number of students that is most important for the emergence of innovative stat-ups. …

research. The empirical analysis clearly indicates the critical role of industry-specific knowledge plays for new. Hence …, strengthening the regional knowledge base should be a key policy that aims at stimulating entrepreneurship in this sector. …