Universities and the Success of Entrepreneurial Ventures: Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

Siegel, Donald S.; Wessner, Charles W

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1505006

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“…The number of previous Phase II awards might be associated with types of firms that are especially likely to grow rapidly given previous SBIR support. Yet, alternatively, such experience could be associated with 'SBIR mills' that may have more interest in receiving multiple awards than in pursuing the commercial applications of these awards (Siegel and Wessner, forthcoming;Wessner 2000).…”

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Employment growth from the Small Business Innovation Research program

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Scott

2010

Small Bus Econ

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Herein, we investigate the impacts of the US publicly funded Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program's funding on the overall employment growth of SBIR award-recipient firms. This paper is motivated by the US Congress' continued emphasis on employment growth during its deliberations on the reauthorization of the SBIR program. We set forth a model of employment growth; the model offers a framework through which we can compare a firm's actual level of employment after receipt of an SBIR award and completion of the research project to the level of employment predicted by the firm's characteristics prior to the award. Using data collected by the National Research Council within the National Academies, we estimate our model, and we conclude that, on average, the overall employment effects associated with the SBIR program are large absolutely and relative to dollars of funding, but these effects are, in general, not statistically significant.

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confidence: 99%

Employment growth from the Small Business Innovation Research program

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Scott

2010

Small Bus Econ

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“…Commercial interests in research are nothing new, and are in many cases encouraged by universities as part of 'knowledge based transfer' or 'entrepreneurship' [20] [34] [43]. Few things speak to the true value of academic outputs as well as the marketplace, and this serves as a measureable way to assess that [36].…”

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Ethics in context

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Belford²

2014

SIGCAS Comput. Soc.

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The delivery of ethical instruction within formal educational contexts is a task that is fraught with difficulties. Real world situations and examples of misconduct abound, but sourcing sufficient material within the constraints associated with developing course materials can be time-consuming.The availability of resources to illustrate relevant aspects may not be available, or may not fully emphasize the issues that educators wish to incorporate into their discussion of the material. At best, such an approach can only highlight in isolation -larger, overarching connections are rarely available. The provision of ethical instruction is now a core aspect of many undergraduate and postgraduate courses across a variety of disciplines, and accreditation bodies often include meeting the need for instruction in ethical and professional issues as a pre-requisite. In this paper we present a wide-ranging ethical case study called 'A Scandal in Academia'. It is a spiritual successor to the Case of the Killer Robot first published in the very early 1990s. The Scandal in Academia study has been trialed with students at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum and has been very effective in offering a coherent jumping-off point for a discussion of the implications of ethical and unethical activity. It is hoped that the provision of this study will be a useful tool for educators and others looking to investigate and present issues of professional responsibility within formal and informal contexts.

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“…4. See Link and Scott (2012a) and Siegel and Wessner (2012) for a legislative history of the SBIR program. 5.…”

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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms: Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

2013

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There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of entrepreneurial firms. We fill this gap by examining a rich project-level data set consisting of entrepreneurial firms receiving Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are significantly more likely to license and sell their technology rights and engage in collaborative research and development agreements. Our results suggest that private equity investments accelerate the development and commercialization of research-based technologies, thus contributing to economic growth. We conclude that both public and private investments have a positive effect on innovation performance.

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Universities and the Success of Entrepreneurial Ventures: Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

Cited by 23 publications

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Employment growth from the Small Business Innovation Research program

Employment growth from the Small Business Innovation Research program

Ethics in context

Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms: Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

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