University spin-offs

Opportunity Spin-offs and Necessity Spin-offs

Necessity spin-offs are organized by employees of incumbent firms to escape deteriorating job conditions. This paper proposes a conceptual model of the spin-off process. Necessity spin-offs are distinguished from opportunity spin-offs on the basis of their triggering events. An empirical analysis of German laser spin-offs traces differences in the performance and determinants of the two types o...

[Spin-offs and the centrifugal force of the university].

Creating University Spin-Offs: A Science-Based Design Perspective

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factors affecting in university incubators infrastructure and their role in the entrepreneurial universities spin-offs establishment

the study focuses on identifying the university incubators existing infrastructure and their role in the university spin-offs establishment. the study adopts an integrated approach as its methodology. the statistical population includes all universities and colleges managers, experts in universities’ incubators in mazandaran province. to perform the sampling, the purposive sampling and stratifi...

Strategic Spin-Offs

When a downstream producer enters backward into the input market, a “helping the rivals” effect exists: such entry hurts the firm’s downstream business as it increases upstream competition and thus reduces the input price for rival downstream firms. This negative externality prevents the newly-created upstream unit from expanding. A spin-off enables the firm to credibly expand in the input mark...