IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/servic/v39y2019i1p43-64.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Growth of KIBS and non-KIBS firms: evidences from university spin-offs

Author

Listed:
  • Christian Corsi
  • Antonio Prencipe
  • María Jesús Rodríguez-Gulías
  • David Rodeiro-Pazos
  • Sara Fernández-López

Abstract

Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) firms are emerging into a knowledge-processing and knowledge-producing industry. Universities contribute to the creation of KIBS firms through university spin-offs (USOs), which represent an opportunity to boost knowledge spillovers from university to industry thanks to their cutting-edge research knowledge, consolidated research experience and well-developed interactive learning processes. The study of the growth of the KIBS USOs is needed to better understand whether these entrepreneurial ventures represent strategic elements of regional innovation systems and economic growth, distinguishing them from the other USOs in terms of growth. The paper explores whether KIBS firms grow more than non-KIBS firms. Using a sample of 1394 Italian and Spanish USOs over the period 2005–2013, the results show that being a KIBS firm has a positive effect on the growth of Spanish USOs, whereas the same does not hold for Italian USOs. Some relevant policies and practical implications are provided.

Suggested Citation

  • Christian Corsi & Antonio Prencipe & María Jesús Rodríguez-Gulías & David Rodeiro-Pazos & Sara Fernández-López, 2019. "Growth of KIBS and non-KIBS firms: evidences from university spin-offs," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(1), pages 43-64, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:39:y:2019:i:1:p:43-64
    DOI: 10.1080/02642069.2018.1436703
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/02642069.2018.1436703
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/02642069.2018.1436703?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:39:y:2019:i:1:p:43-64. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/FSIJ20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.