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Structuration aspects in academic spin-off emergence: A roadmap-based analysis

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  • Freitas, Jonathan Simões
  • Gonçalves, Carlos Alberto
  • Cheng, Lin Chih
  • Muniz, Reynaldo Maia

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The influence of the strategic management research rooted conception of firm performance as resulting from the structure–agency duality is clear in the academic spin-off (ASO) literature. However, the interplay of structuration aspects during ASO emergence is still under-researched—though potentially relevant to explain spin-offs’ heterogeneity. Thus, this paper presents a roadmap-based investigation of structure and agency patterns in the emergence of a Brazilian high-tech ASO focused on developing products from carbon nanotubes to industrial applications. Causal cognitive mapping was used to construct seven emergence roadmaps from entrepreneurs' retrospective narratives and the qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) was applied to formally analyze the maps. As a result, the main generative mechanisms of the structuration aspects were identified, leading to evidence-based propositions about the distinctive explanatory capability of: R&D-oriented agency, internal structures and environment–resources combinations. Moreover, the study identified subsets of the original roadmap layers able to consistently limit, in a logically parsimonious way, the empirical diversity of various phenomena considered theoretically relevant aspects of academic spin-off emergence. Hence, the paper illustrates the value, from a scholarly perspective, of incorporating formal techniques to roadmap analyses and identifies complex patterns of structure and agency to be further explored by future investigations.

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  • Freitas, Jonathan Simões & Gonçalves, Carlos Alberto & Cheng, Lin Chih & Muniz, Reynaldo Maia, 2013. "Structuration aspects in academic spin-off emergence: A roadmap-based analysis," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 80(6), pages 1162-1178.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:80:y:2013:i:6:p:1162-1178
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2012.04.021
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    3. Ratinho, Tiago & Harms, Rainer & Walsh, Steven, 2015. "Structuring the Technology Entrepreneurship publication landscape: Making sense out of chaos," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 168-175.
    4. Elisa Salvador & Pierre-Jean Benghozi, 2015. "Research spin-off firms: does the university involvement really matter?," Post-Print hal-02091015, HAL.
    5. Park, Hyunkyu & Phaal, Rob & Ho, Jae-Yun & O'Sullivan, Eoin, 2020. "Twenty years of technology and strategic roadmapping research: A school of thought perspective," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 154(C).

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