The Effectiveness of University Knowledge Spill-Overs: Performance Differences between University Spin-Offs and Corporate Spin-Offs
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- Wennberg, Karl & Wiklund, Johan & Wright, Mike, 2011. "The effectiveness of university knowledge spillovers: Performance differences between university spinoffs and corporate spinoffs," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 40(8), pages 1128-1143, October.
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Spill-Overs;JEL classification:
- L53 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Enterprise Policy
- M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
- O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CSE-2010-12-23 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-EDU-2010-12-23 (Education)
- NEP-ENT-2010-12-23 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-INO-2010-12-23 (Innovation)
- NEP-IPR-2010-12-23 (Intellectual Property Rights)
- NEP-LAB-2010-12-23 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-SBM-2010-12-23 (Small Business Management)
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