Over the last two decades, the phenomenon of technology entrepreneurship has attracted the interest of researchers and policy makers due to its significant impact upon economic progress. Several authors define technology entrepreneurship as the interface of two well-established, but related...

The innovation process is becoming more open. According to the concept of the Triple Helix, this requires the creation of institutions capable of mediating the interaction of agents, primarily related to the different elements of the innovation system. The academic spin-off is not only a form of...

In this paper we illustrate the changes that the Italian university system underwent from the early 2000s till today, with a special focus on the transition to academic entrepreneurship. We describe these changes as part of more general and similar trends taking place in other European countries...

60 university spinouts in 3 years. 94% still alive. Lowest cost per spinout in the US. The 'book' on successful technology transfer is to find multiple ways to substitute bottom-up entrepreneurial approaches for top-down bureaucratic mechanisms. However, few programs successfully manage the...

This paper examines the question of whether the initial stock of resources of new ventures that enter an industry differs based on the whether they enter before or after a technological discontinuity occurs. We draw on the theoretical foundations of the resource-based view of the firm, and those...

In this article we have estimated the value of “Opportunity Driven Entrepreneurship” in Europe. We use data from European Innovation Scoreboard-EIS of the European Commission for 36 countries in the period 2010-2019. We use Panel Data with Fixed Effects, Panel Data with Random Effects, WLS,...

In international rankings, Switzerland is regularly rated one of the most innovative economies in the world. Despite this, it still lacks service innovations, a fact that is all the more significant considering that this represents the largest sector of the country's economy. Different types of...

It appears that innovation, and how an organization can acquire it, is the key to being competitive in the New Product Development (NPD) marketplace. Knowledge that leads to innovation in products, unlike specialized scientific knowledge areas (for which there are designated labor markets to...

We offer description and analysis of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey, summarizing the responses of 1,332 U.S.-based technology startups in the biotechnology, medical device, IT hardware, software, and Internet sectors. We discover that holding patents is more widespread among technology startups...

In this contribution I analyze the individual characteristics of a sample of entrepreneurs, founders of 104 new technology-based firms established after 2002, in the Emilia Romagna region in Italy. Relying on 166 face-to-face interviews, I provide some evidence on the motivations underlying...