The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and technologies from research organizations to the private sector for commercialization. In the promotion process, policymakers typically treat these “university” spinoffs like industry startups. However, when university spinoffs involve an employment transition by a researcher out of the no...

Today, software products are required to be more innovative and attractive because of unique circumstances in the software industry. Markets are changing fast and customers want to have more innovative products immediately. This paper provides a new process which integrates an inventive problem solving method into one modern software development program, making it part of the software developme...

本研究の目的は，起業家の出身大学・出身企業とスタートアップの地理的近接性が成長に影響することを明らかにすることである．起業家の出身大学・出身企業は，外部リソースを調達するためのソーシャルキャピタルである．スタートアップのミッションは，社会課題を解決してイノベーションを引き起こすことと短期間で高成長を実現することとである．一方で，創業初期のスタートアップには，成長のためのリソースが不足している．起業家は，社会的なつながりであるソーシャルキャピタルを通してリソースを動員する必要がある．本稿では，スタートアップが成長するためには，単にスタートアップ集積地に立地することでは効果がなく，リソースとの近接性が成長要因であることを主張する．

Influenced by decreasing product development times, early production startups, increasing ranges of variants and heightened process orientation, systematically interconnecting the development of products with the development of production systems to form an integrated unified process is becoming a priority in manufacturing companies. This constitutes a significant basis for realizing time and c...

This paper presents a model of the software-focused, venture-backed entrepreneurship found in the San Francisco Bay Area, or “Silicon Valley.” Three kinds of markets matter in the model: (1) the financial market for venture capital, (2) the labor market for engineers, and (3) the collection of product markets successful technology companies serve. The key economic actors are elite “engineers” w...

One of the most important roles the Brazilian Society of Biotechnology SBBIOTEC can play is to organize the Biotechnology Sector. The Brazilian Biotechnology Network aims at the academic sector. The academic sector is represented by 48 Graduate Courses registered at CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior) /Ministry of Education, specifically in the area of Biotechnol...

Effectual entrepreneurship research has played a big role in deepening the understanding of the entrepreneurial process. While effectuation theory has originally been focused on discovering entrepreneurial opportunities and the early creation of new venture, it may well have applications also in the phase where companies open new international markets. This study first compares effectuation the...