Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Helping birds to fly: introducing start-up incubation ecosystems / Adam Novotny, Einar Rasmussen, Tommy H. Clausen, and Johan Wiklund -- Part I: Holistic approaches to supies -- 1. The role of smart specialization in providing regional strategic support for...

Research-Based Spin-Offs (RBSOs) are seen as a potential mechanism for technology transfer by commercializing academic research and thereby stimulate industrial innovation. RBSOs are heterogeneous, however, and in this paper we investigate how the use of different business models by RBSOs is...