Creating an Entrepreneurial Region: Two Waves of Academic Spin-offs from Halmstad University

Berggren, Eva; Dahlstrand, Åsa Lindholm

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“…Using the cases of the U.S. and other Anglo-American economies, they argued that entrepreneurial RIS relies more on individual actors such as entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, researchers, incubators and demanding pioneering customers for developing innovations. This is the reason why small business entrepreneurship and scalable start-up entrepreneurship are vitalized in entrepreneurial RIS (Ylinenpää, 2009;Berggren & Dahlstrand, 2009).…”

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Entrepreneurship in East Asian Regional Innovation Systems: Role of social capital

Yoon

Yun

Lee

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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This paper analyzes the role of social capital in entrepreneurial RIS (Regional Innovation Systems). We disaggregate the features of mature entrepreneurial RIS into three dimensions of social capital: structural, relational, and cognitive. We apply these features of mature entrepreneurial RIS to the still-evolving entrepreneurial RIS from East Asia including Daedeok Innopolis of Korea and Hsinchu Science Park of Taiwan. The spawning effect of representative companies within focal industries, collaboration among the key organizational actors, and attraction and retention of talent are taken into account. The study uncovers a new aspect of still-evolving entrepreneurial RIS, which complements the existing typology categorizing RIS into institutional RIS and entrepreneurial RIS. Whereas the conventional literature has viewed the East Asian RIS as institutional RIS, the findings of this study allow scholars to view the East Asian RIS as entrepreneurial in their own distinctive manner. Meanwhile, we also find an important implication for making a shift from a topdown to a bottom-up approach in order for the still-evolving entrepreneurial RIS to vitalize cognitive social capital. Thus, we suggest the transitions from outward-looking social capital to inward-looking social capital.

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Section: Revisiting the Concept Of Entrepreneurial Rismentioning

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Entrepreneurship in East Asian Regional Innovation Systems: Role of social capital

Yoon

Yun

Lee

et al. 2015

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…Oosterbeek et al (2010) find that entrepreneurship programs can moderate entrepreneurial intentions by providing students with a more realistic perspective on the lifestyle and skills needed for successful entrepreneurship. Further, Berggren and Dahlstrand (2009) find that regional policies and networks may have a disproportionate impact on entrepreneurial motivations and success among students and faculty compared to internal university factors.…”

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Who is the academic entrepreneur? The role of graduate students in the development of university spinoffs

2016

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Academic entrepreneurship, the establishment of new companies based on technologies derived from university research, is a well-recognized driver of regional and national economic development. For more than a decade, scholars have conceptualized individual university faculty as the primary agents of academic entrepreneurship. Recent research suggests that graduate students also play a critical role in the establishment and early development of university spinoff companies, but the nature of their involvement through the entrepreneurial process is not yet fully understood. Employing a case study approach, this paper investigates the role of graduate students in early-stage university spinoff companies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We find that graduate students play role similar to that of individual faculty entrepreneurs in university spinoffs, both in terms of making the initial establishment decision and in reconfiguring the organization for marketable technology development. We also find that student entrepreneurs face unique challenges involving conflicts with faculty advisors and other students.

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“…In particular, Ev en the research laboratories at Halmstad University produce considerably more student than faculty spin-offs. In a study of 15 spin-offs from the Center for Research on Embedded Systems, Berggren and Lindholm-Dahlstrand (2008) found that 12 (80 percent) w ere formed by former students and only 3 by research staff. Twelve of these firms (80 percent) maintain head office in Halmstad.…”

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Universities, Entrepreneurship, and Local Economic Development

Astebro

Bazzazian

2011

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may www.econstor.eu Student Startups and Local Economic DevelopmentDate: February 25, 2010 AbstractEarlier research on the role of universities in creating local economic development almost exclusively covers licensing and start-ups by faculty and staff. Our hypothesis is that the major impact by universities instead is in the form of startups created by former students. We review the evidence on student spin-off activity and provide new case study data. It turns out that this activity is probably order of magnitudes larger than faculty spin-offs, at least in terms of number of startups. Maybe as much as 80 percent of all student spin-offs are and remain locally situated and a dominant fraction of these spin offs are located extremely close to their parent university. The recent transformation of university goals and practices toward increasing spinoff rates and new firm creation by faculty and researchers thus might be called to question.

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Creating an Entrepreneurial Region: Two Waves of Academic Spin-offs from Halmstad University

Cited by 51 publications

References 12 publications

Entrepreneurship in East Asian Regional Innovation Systems: Role of social capital

Entrepreneurship in East Asian Regional Innovation Systems: Role of social capital

Who is the academic entrepreneur? The role of graduate students in the development of university spinoffs

Universities, Entrepreneurship, and Local Economic Development

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