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@unpublished{CLARYSSE:2010,
author = {CLARYSSE, B and WRIGHT, M and VANDEVELDE, E},
title = {Entrepreneurial Origin, Technological Knowledge and the Growth of Spin-off Companies},
year = {2010}
}
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AB - We contribute to the literature on corporate spin-offs and university spin-offs byexploring how different characteristics in the technological knowledge base at start-upinfluence spin-off performance. We investigate how the technological knowledgecharacteristics endowed at start-up predict growth, taking into account whether theknowledge / technology is transferred from a corporation or university. We use anovel, hand-collected dataset involving 48 corporate and 73 university spin-offs,comprising the population of spin-offs in Flanders during 1991-2002. We findcorporate spin-offs grow most if they start with a specific narrow-focused technologysufficiently distinct from the technical knowledge base of the parent company andwhich is tacit. University spin-offs benefit from a broad technology which istransferred to the spin-off. Novelty of the technical knowledge does not play a role incorporate spin-offs, but has a negative impact in university spin-offs unlessuniversities have an experienced technology transfer office to support the spin-off.
AU - CLARYSSE,B
AU - WRIGHT,M
AU - VANDEVELDE,E
PY - 2010///
TI - Entrepreneurial Origin, Technological Knowledge and the Growth of Spin-off Companies
ER -