IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/prbchp/978-3-031-80692-6_41.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Performance and Impact of Digital Academic Spin-Offs

In: Advanced Perspectives and Trends in Digital Transformation of Firms, Networks, and Society

Author

Listed:
  • Carmine Passavanti

    (University of Naples Federico II)

  • Simonetta Primario

    (University of Naples Federico II)

  • Pierluigi Rippa

    (University of Naples Federico II)

Abstract

This study explores the performance and impact of Digital Academic Spin-offs (DASO) compared to traditional academic spin-offs. Academic entrepreneurship through spin-offs is vital for technological and economic development. While various factors influencing Academic Spin-offs’ performance have been examined, the role of digital technologies in academic entrepreneurship remains underexplored. This chapter addresses this gap by analyzing financial and economic data from 294 spin-offs from major Italian Universities over the past decade. Using Generalized Estimating Equations, the study evaluates the impact of digital technologies, intellectual property, gender diversity, governance structures, and company age on spin-off performance. The results show that digital technologies significantly enhance spin-offs’ business performance, while the effects of intellectual property are more complex. Gender diversity and governance structures, highlighting areas for further research. The findings suggest that DASO outperforms non-digital peers, emphasizing the need for continued development in digital technology entrepreneurship within academic environments.

Suggested Citation

  • Carmine Passavanti & Simonetta Primario & Pierluigi Rippa, 2025. "Performance and Impact of Digital Academic Spin-Offs," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Francesco Schiavone & Nessrine Omrani & Heger Gabteni (ed.), Advanced Perspectives and Trends in Digital Transformation of Firms, Networks, and Society, chapter 0, pages 503-513, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-80692-6_41
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80692-6_41
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    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:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-80692-6_41. 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: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    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.