Startups by recent university graduates and their faculty: Implications for university entrepreneurship policy

Astebro, Thomas B.; Bazzazian, Navid; Braguinsky, Serguey

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2012.01.004

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“…In addition, articles belonging to this cluster also examine the dynamics of Triple Helix infrastructure (Kwon et al 2012;Lei et al 2012). In the context of U-I collaborations, the ecosystem perspective addresses the university policy developments stimulating entrepreneurship-based economic development Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of the… promoted by regional authorities (Astebro et al 2012). In accordance with this research thread, several articles focus on understanding the exploitation possibilities of the cogenerated knowledge to bootstrap the technology of regional innovation systems (Leydesdorff and Deakin 2011).…”

Section: Cluster 1: Ecosystem Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of the literature on university–industry collaborations

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The substantial acknowledgement of university-industry (U-I) collaborations as promotor of economic progress, innovativeness and competitiveness fostered a continuous research engagement. At the same time, the U-I literature experienced a notable increase in the past decade, transforming into a multi-faceted and ambiguous research field, characterised by highly complex interlinks. The recent transformation hinders a comprehensive understanding of the latest developments in research directions and their clear delineation. Therefore, the purpose of this bibliometric literature review is to examine the evolution of the field and identify the primary emerging patterns. This paper employs co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling techniques to analyse the U-I publications dataset. The findings indicate that the U-I collaborations research can be systematically clustered, resulting in an interconnected ecosystem consisting of three levels: individual, organisational and institutional, respectively. Thus, this review presents the immense contribution that the analysis of U-I collaborations makes to various research streams. Building on these findings and employing qualitative content analysis on the clustered publications, the paper develops a research agenda that encourages future investigations of previously overlooked features of U-I collaborations in general, and their role across levels of analysis, contexts and stages of the collaboration process in particular.

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Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of the literature on university–industry collaborations

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“…Recent studies are beginning to shed light on the contextual characteristics driving entrepreneurial choices by highlighting different organizational, institutional and regional contexts that influence graduate start-ups and venture creation (Astebro et al 2012;Leitch et al 2012;Dodd and Hynes 2012;Bergmann et al 2016;Walter and Dohse 2012). University organizational capabilities, resources and ultimately the knowledge generated by the contextual characteristics associated to research and teaching, affect the entrepreneurial competences of graduate entrepreneurs, and determine the institutional capacity to generate student ventures (Beyhan and Findik 2017).…”

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Evolving missions and university entrepreneurship: academic spin-offs and graduate start-ups in the entrepreneurial society

2017

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A recent call has urged to broaden the conceptualization of university entrepreneurship in order to appreciate the heterogeneity of contexts and actors involved in the process of entrepreneurial creation. A gap still persists in the understanding of the variety of ventures generated by different academic stakeholders, and the relationships between these entrepreneurial developments and university missions, namely, teaching and research. This paper addresses this particular gap by looking at how university teaching and research activities influence universities' entrepreneurial ventures such as academic spin-offs and graduate start-ups. Empirically, we analyse the English higher education sector, drawing on institutional data at the university level. First, we explore the ways in which teaching and research activities are configured, and secondly, we examine how such configurations relate to academic spin-offs and graduate start-ups across different universities over time. Our findings suggest, first, that the evolution of USOs and graduate start-ups exhibit two different pathways over time; and second, that teaching and research both affect entrepreneurial ventures but their effect is different.

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“…Also, every university is located in a specific spatial context that may influence as to how far people perceive opportunities and whether they can be established or not (Drakopoulou Dodd & Hynes, 2012;Sternberg, 2009;Van Looy et al, 2011). However, while there is a broad literature on academic entrepreneurship, far less research has investigated student start-ups, although they are much more frequent than start-ups by faculty and also generate substantial economic impact (Åstebro, Bazzazian, & Braguinsky, 2012;Backes-Gellner, Demirer, & Sternberg, 2002). By applying the knowledge their founders acquired, these start-ups contribute to knowledge spillovers from the university to the market (Wennberg et al, 2011).…”

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What makes student entrepreneurs? On the relevance (and irrelevance) of the university and the regional context for student start-ups

2016

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Abstract:Student start-ups are a significant part of overall university entrepreneurship. Yet, we know little about the determinants of this type of start-ups and, specifically, the relevance of context effects. Drawing on organizational and regional context literature, we develop and test a model that aims to explain student entrepreneurship in a contextual perspective. Based on unique micro data and using multi-level techniques, we analyse nascent and new entrepreneurial activities of business and economics students at 41 European universities. Our analysis reveals that individual and contextual determinants influence students' propensity to start a business. While peoples' individual characteristics are most important, the organizational and regional contexts also play a role and have a differentiated effect, depending on the source of the venture idea and the stage of its development. Organisational characteristics, like the prevalence of fellow students who have attended entrepreneurship education, influence whether students take action to start a new firm (nascent entrepreneurship) but do not seem to support the actual establishment of a new firm. In contrast, the latter is less dependent on the university context but more strongly influenced by regional characteristics. Overall, our study contributes to our understanding of the emergence of start-ups in the organizational context of universities and has implications for initiatives and programs that aim at encouraging students to become entrepreneurs.

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Startups by recent university graduates and their faculty: Implications for university entrepreneurship policy

Cited by 293 publications

References 43 publications

Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of the literature on university–industry collaborations

Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of the literature on university–industry collaborations

Evolving missions and university entrepreneurship: academic spin-offs and graduate start-ups in the entrepreneurial society

What makes student entrepreneurs? On the relevance (and irrelevance) of the university and the regional context for student start-ups

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