Quality comes first: university-industry collaboration as a source of academic entrepreneurship in a developing country

Determinants of student entrepreneurship

“…"High-Quality Universities" do not seem to generate more entrepreneurial students, but these centers of excellence are significantly connected to the emergence of "Serial Entrepreneurs" and "Innovation." This outcome is in line with recent results obtained for Brazil (Fischer et al, 2018b), suggesting that these institutions have a key role to play in promoting socioeconomic changes in the economic structure and its respective evolutionary trends.…”

“…Hence, University quality is expected to exert a positive influence on the quality and rate of entrepreneurial activity, considering the relevance of the technological environment on the performance of young firms (Laursen Reichstein and Salter, 2011;Tischler, 2014). Analogous findings have been reported on the Brazilian environment by Fischer et al (2018b).…”

“…The relevance of incubators and science parks as supporting mechanisms for startups is highlighted by Fini et al (2011), Feldman (2001 and Wright et al (2017). In the Brazilian case, empirical findings show evidence in favor of such sort of academic provisions (Fischer et al, 2018b). However, while there is a widespread belief that university support for student entrepreneurship generates desirable effects (Feola et al, 2017), the evaluation of its impacts across the literature provides mixed outcomes .…”

Innovation Ecosystems in Brazil: Research Universities as Drivers of Competitiveness

“…Achieving closer interactions between universities and productive systems can boost technological innovation and, consequently, catching up dynamics (Caraça et al, 2009;Cohen et al, 2002;Jiao et al, 2016;Li, 2009). However, in the Brazilian context, these interconnections still suffer from institutional and market deficiencies (Fischer et al, 2017;Fischer at al., 2018a). Improvements in the conditions and incentives for these interactions, as we have demonstrated, can prove to be a fruitful strategy for the Brazilian Innovation System.…”

Configurations of Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Assessment of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil

“…Affluent 2 Because of the highly local nature of entrepreneurial ecosystems, literature has recognized these units (cities) as the most adequate locus for empirical assessments (Bruns et al, 2017;Audretsch & Belitski, 2017) technological environments tend to facilitate entrepreneurial activity at the local level (Nicotra et al, 2017). In the State of São Paulo, Brazil, city-level patenting activity has demonstrated a strong influence on the emergence of KIE activity (Fischer et al, 2017).…”