Location choice of academic entrepreneurs: Evidence from the US biotechnology industry

Kolympiris, Christos; Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas; Miller, Douglas R.

doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2014.02.002

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“…Furthermore, the resulting firms performed significantly better than other firms in terms of subsequent VC funding and patenting. Using a sample of 187 biopharmaceutical firms started by 275 academic entrepreneurs in the US, Kolympiris, Kalaitzandonakes, and Miller (2015) show that the location choice of academic entrepreneurs is influenced by both personal (e.g. age) and external factors (e.g.…”

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The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship

Block

Fisch

Praag

2016

Industry and Innovation

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Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development and has sparked a lively discussion in academia and practice alike. Oftentimes, however, the debate is not sufficiently grounded on solid empirical evidence. The academic literature is growing but very scattered and is separated into several disciplines. We provide a summary that takes stock of the academic knowledge about innovative entrepreneurship and summarizes the evidence from 102 empirical studies published in the primary economics and management journals on the antecedents, behavior, and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship. Based on this state-of-the-art literature review, directions for future research are discussed.

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The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship

Block

Fisch

Praag

2016

Industry and Innovation

263

141

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“…It is measured by four dummy variables: Beijing (Yes = 1, No = 0), Tianjin (Yes = 1, No = 0), Hebei (Yes = 1, No = 0), and Shandong (Yes = 1, No = 0). Corporate location reflects diverse cultural norms, infrastructure, and knowledge asset backgrounds in different regions (Cardon et al, 2011; Kolympiris et al, 2015). All these factors may influence the pressure that entrepreneurs perceive and their sense of control over pressure.…”

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Coping Humor of Entrepreneurs: Interaction Between Social Culture and Entrepreneurial Experience

Lin

Han

2018

Front. Psychol.

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It is feasible to deal with the high pressures in entrepreneurship using humor. This paper studies the effect of interaction between entrepreneurs’ perception of social culture and entrepreneurial experience (including experience with entrepreneurial failure and current company performance) on coping humor of entrepreneurs with a sample of 171 entrepreneurs from Bohai Rim in China. Regression analysis revealed that entrepreneurs would be more likely to adopt coping humor when they perceived supportive social culture to entrepreneurship and had experienced entrepreneurial failure or when they perceived supportive social culture to entrepreneurship and had good current business. This study contributes to the literature of the theory of humor, the culture of entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial failure.

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“…Empirical research in this vein has focused primarily on entrepreneurship among university employees rather than among students or recent graduates (Rothaermel et al, 2007;Siegel and Wright, 2015b). One of the few studies on location choices of former university employees examined the location of biotech firms spun out of US universities, finding that the location of the founders, other firms in the industry, and venture capitalists all influenced their location choice (Kolympiris et al, 2015). A more general study on the location choices of 35,000 entrepreneurs in Swedena third of them being university graduatesshowed that graduates are significantly more likely to start ventures in the region where they complete their studies, even after controlling for birth region (Baltzopoulos and Broström, 2013).…”

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Location choices of graduate entrepreneurs

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We review complementary theoretical perspectives on location choices of university graduate entrepreneurs derived from the individual-opportunity nexus and local embeddedness perspectives on entrepreneurship. Analysis of the full population of 215,388 graduates from Swedish institutions of higher education between 2002 and 2006 provides support for both location choice perspectives. Overall, 63% of graduate entrepreneurs start businesses locally in their region of graduation while 37% start businesses elsewhere. The likelihood of starting locally is substantially higher in metropolitan regions, if the graduate was born locally or has university peer entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial family members in the region of graduation. Implications for theory and public policy are discussed

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Location choice of academic entrepreneurs: Evidence from the US biotechnology industry

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Cited by 50 publications

References 122 publications

The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship

The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship

Coping Humor of Entrepreneurs: Interaction Between Social Culture and Entrepreneurial Experience

Location choices of graduate entrepreneurs

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