In order to preserve innovation, knowledge development and diffusion, as well as the transfer of new technologies, the emergence of University Start-Ups (USU) and their survival as a particular dimension of performance represents a relevant research topic. As USU generally have scarce initial...

The main objective of this chapter is to critically embrace the heterogeneity of university-based companies, to describe the peculiarity of their founding team (as a form of resource transferred from the university) and to analyze differences in performance among different typologies of...

We investigate how perceived parents' performance in entrepreneurship (PPE) affects the entrepreneurial career intentions of offspring. We argue that while perceived PPE enhances offspring's perceived entrepreneurial desirability and feasibility because of exposure mechanisms, it inhibits the...