This paper explores the academic entrepreneur’s identity transition and its impact on spin-off’s innovative input. Central to this study is factors that influence scholars’ position-holding behavior their spin-offs. Based data of 2005–2010 SME Innovation Fund 14 interviews, we investigate role embeddedness entrepreneurial role-taking from perspective theory. Empirical results show scholars with...

the study focuses on identifying the university incubators existing infrastructure and their role in the university spin-offs establishment. the study adopts an integrated approach as its methodology. the statistical population includes all universities and colleges managers, experts in universities’ incubators in mazandaran province. to perform the sampling, the purposive sampling and stratifi...

When a downstream producer enters backward into the input market, a “helping the rivals” effect exists: such entry hurts the firm’s downstream business as it increases upstream competition and thus reduces the input price for rival downstream firms. This negative externality prevents the newly-created upstream unit from expanding. A spin-off enables the firm to credibly expand in the input mark...

This study investigates the changes in team composition four academic high-tech start-ups and spin-offs. These companies were initiated on grounds had to undergo transition order act as private companies. For human resources of all kinds this goes along with a change requirements their skills work. pilot focused from Germany Slovakia that are active still year 2021. Data was obtained qualitativ...

The problem that this chapter tries to solve, is to find the relation between entrepreneurship, university research, and economic growth. The contribution of the present analysis is that, we aim to underline a) the role of university entrepreneurship in economic growth, b) to identify the reasons why this role is underdeveloped in the European South compared to the European North and c) to sugg...