Universities have been engaging increasingly in support commercialization efforts, eg
through the creation of academic spin-offs. The support for these new ventures often does …

Academic spin-offs are very special start-up companies that are founded by an academic
inventor with the aim to exploit technological knowledge that originated within a University …

The rapid rate of technological change, shorter product life cycles and more intense global
competition has radically transformed the current competitive position of many regional …

University spinoffs in Japan only started to gain momentum in the latter half of the 1990s.
While there were only approximately 30 startup companies in 1990, this number soared to 1 …

University spin-offs are the object of interest of many actors in a society, due to their potential
positive impacts on regional and national competitiveness, entrepreneurial culture, diffusion …

The creation of knowledge-based firms has become particularly important in recent
decades, bringing with it a proliferation of university support programs for setting up spin …

This chapter reviews evidence about the factors which have been shown to explain the
decisions made by academics, as well as students and alumni, to become founders of spin …

This paper investigates the development of university spinout companies (USOs).
Employing a case-based research method, our study found that there are two important …

Over the last three decades, universities are being increasingly considered for their
assistance in the creation of new ventures, namely academic spin-offs. Academic spin-offs …

The considerable economic contribution of academic spin-offs (ASOs) has drawn numerous
scholars' attention to explore the factors that influence their development. The body of …