Improving Innovation in University Spin-Offs: The Fostering Role of University and Region

University spin-offs (USOs) are companies created to commercialize knowledge or technology developed in academia; thus, their major contribution to the knowledge economy is their ability to generate innovation. Following the Resource-Based View of the Firm and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entre...

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Autores principales:	Corsi,Christian, Prencipe,Antonio
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2016
Materias:	University spin-offs Innovation University context Regional context Knowledge Spillover Theory Resource-Based View
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description	University spin-offs (USOs) are companies created to commercialize knowledge or technology developed in academia; thus, their major contribution to the knowledge economy is their ability to generate innovation. Following the Resource-Based View of the Firm and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, it was stated that fostering mechanisms at university level and at regional level may positively influence the USOs innovation. Based on a sample of 621 Italian USOs, we show that the positive impact of the university context is more crucial compared with those of the regional context. In particular, the university affiliated business incubators and Science Parks, jointly with the university financial resources, seem to promote the innovation efforts of USOs. These evidences rise the need of a resilient partnership among all the contextual players involved in the spillover processes, mainly at regional level, in order to effectively exploit the potential innovative efforts of the university start-ups.
author	Corsi,Christian Prencipe,Antonio
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title	Improving Innovation in University Spin-Offs: The Fostering Role of University and Region
title_short	Improving Innovation in University Spin-Offs: The Fostering Role of University and Region
title_full	Improving Innovation in University Spin-Offs: The Fostering Role of University and Region
title_fullStr	Improving Innovation in University Spin-Offs: The Fostering Role of University and Region
title_full_unstemmed	Improving Innovation in University Spin-Offs: The Fostering Role of University and Region
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publisher	Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
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Improving Innovation in University Spin-Offs: The Fostering Role of University and Region

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