The effectiveness of university knowledge spillovers: Performance differences between university spinoffs and corporate spinoffs

Research Policy

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1128-1143

  Wennberg, Karl ^a,b   Wiklund, Johan ^c,d   Wright, Mike ^e,f  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b Jönköping University and Ratio Institute Stockholm   (Sweden)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Corporate spinoffs; Technology Transfer Offices; University spinoffs

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ACADEMIC SPIN-OFFS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CORPORATE CONTEXTS; CORPORATE SPINOFFS; INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE; INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; LITTLE RESEARCH; NEW VENTURE CREATION; NEW VENTURES; PRIOR EXPERIENCE; RESEARCH EXPERIENCE; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OFFICES; UNIVERSITY EDUCATION; UNIVERSITY SPIN-OFFS;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 80051543851     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2011.05.014     Document Type: Article

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