In recent years, the promotion of university spin-offs has become a measure adopted by many European universities to facilitate commercialization new technologies and knowledge that can lead more sustainable economies societies. However, effectiveness university-based companies also been questioned, as them are resource-constrained, remain small in size struggle consolidate once they leave cont...

Academic entrepreneurship education aims to train and raise awareness amongst students about entrepreneurial activity, thereby increasing the number of academic start-ups spin-offs. However, as yet, there are very few findings on gender-specific differences potential entrepreneurs. Building current state research, in form various different components competence examined. This study focuses part...

As public research organisations are increasingly driven by their national and regional governments to engage in knowledge transfer, they have started to support the creation of companies. These research based spin-off companies (RBSOs) often keep contacts with the research institutes they originate from. In this paper we present the results of a study of four research institutes within two uni...

In this paper we show that London‟s universities have produced a large number of technology-based spin-offs with distinctive patterns. In particular, we show that the majority of the university-related spin-offs are small and medium-sized (SMEs) and concentrated in biomedical sectors as elsewhere (Shane 2006, Lawton Smith and Ho 2006). A high proportion are high growth or „gazelles‟ (OECD 2008,...

Using a new dataset encompassing more than 2,000 inventions made by Max Planck Society researchers from 1980 to 2004, we study the effects of information asymmetry and imperfect knowledge transfer on the licensing and successful commercialization of technologies from public research, distinguishing among types of licensees as well as invention and inventor characteristics. Technologies licensed...

Using a new dataset encompassing more than 2,000 inventions made by Max Planck Society researchers from 1980 to 2004, we study the effects of information asymmetry and imperfect knowledge transfer on the licensing and successful commercialization of technologies from public research, distinguishing among types of licensees as well as invention and inventor characteristics. Technologies licensed...