University spin-offs and the "performance premium"

Small Business Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 309-326

  Czarnitzki, Dirk ^a,b   Rammer, Christian ^b   Toole, Andrew A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^c ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic entrepreneurship; Firm performance; Human capital; Open science; Social capital; Start ups; Technology transfer; University spin off policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904166260     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-013-9538-0     Document Type: Article

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