Evaluating Performance of University Spin-Off Companies: Lessons from Italy

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 setting in order to develop products or services. During the last two decades, academic spin-offs have received increasi...

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Autores principales:	Bigliardi,Barbara, Galati,Francesco, Verbano,Chiara
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2013
Materias:	spin-offs university performance italy
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description	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 setting in order to develop products or services. During the last two decades, academic spin-offs have received increasing attention from both researchers and practitioners, mainly due to their ability to advance industrial application of scientific knowledge. Much of the studies available in literature on this matter, however, have focused on USA's spin-offs, while still little attention has been paid to the European countries, and to Italy in particular. Thus, the aim of our research is twofold: first, to fill this gap in literature. Second, to propose, on the basis of the above mentioned literature review, a model of ex-ante evaluation of the spin-off companies' performance. Specifically, the research methodology followed was a combination of literature analysis and Delphi technique: we first extensively reviewed the extant literature on spin-off companies, then we proposed to a panel of expert the indicators that emerged from the literature as affecting the performance of academic spin-offs.
author	Bigliardi,Barbara Galati,Francesco Verbano,Chiara
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title	Evaluating Performance of University Spin-Off Companies: Lessons from Italy
title_short	Evaluating Performance of University Spin-Off Companies: Lessons from Italy
title_full	Evaluating Performance of University Spin-Off Companies: Lessons from Italy
title_fullStr	Evaluating Performance of University Spin-Off Companies: Lessons from Italy
title_full_unstemmed	Evaluating Performance of University Spin-Off Companies: Lessons from Italy
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publisher	Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
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Evaluating Performance of University Spin-Off Companies: Lessons from Italy

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