Spin-off enterprises as a means of technology commercialisation in a transforming economy—Evidence from three universities in China

Kroll, Henning; Liefner, Ingo

doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2007.05.002

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“…Grandi and Grimaldi 2005;Niosi 2006). Among the different dimensions of entrepreneurial performance (see Murphy et al 1996), survival becomes particularly relevant in a USU context since it encourages innovation and fosters the commercialization of new technologies (Shane 2004;Kroll and Liefner 2008). Moreover, firm survival is sometimes a more reliable indicator of firm performance in a USU context ).…”

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“To have and have not”: founders’ human capital and university start-up survival

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This is an accepted version of a paper published in Journal of Technology Transfer. This paper has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination.Citation for the published paper: Criaco, G., Minola, T., Migliorini, P., Serarols-Tarrés, C. AbstractIn order to preserve innovation, knowledge development and diffusion, as well as the transfer of new technologies, the emergence of University Start-Ups (USU) and their survival as a particular dimension of performance represents a relevant research topic. As USU generally have scarce initial resources, the human capital of their founders is one of their main business assets. Although the survival of such firms is supposed to be heavily dependent on the human capital characteristics of their founders, this has not received enough attention in existing research. In this paper we investigate the contribution of founders' specific human capital characteristics to the survival of USU, building on Gimeno et al. (Adm Sci Q 42:750-783, 1997) threshold model of entrepreneurial exit. We divide USU founders' specific human capital into three components (entrepreneurship, industry and university) in order to better understand its impact on firm survival. Our theoretical model is empirically tested on a unique sample of Catalan USU through a logistic regression analysis.Coherently with our theoretical reasoning, the results show that industry human capital negatively affect USU survival, while university human capital and entrepreneurship human capital enhance the likelihood of USU survival.

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“…At the same time, this meant talking about two separate research systems, a public and an industrial one that were distinct, not only in terms of their legacy and internal logics (Motohashi 2008), but also in terms of their geographical representation (Kroll and Frietsch 2014;Kroll and Schiller 2010). As a result, meaningful knowledge transfer between these two systems only occurred in a limited number of 'islands of innovation', where regionally unique systems of co-operation had developed over the years (Kroll and Liefner 2008;Kroll and Schiller 2010).…”

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“…At the same time, China also harbours substantial capacities in its diverse domestic public research sector (Kroll and Frietsch 2014;Kroll and Schiller 2010). While, with a view to the first aspect, it thus still displays some structures similar to those in developing nations, it could not differ more markedly with regard to the second (Kroll and Liefner 2008 Additionally, the industrial structure of transforming innovation systems like China's used to be characterised by a range of major players in the state-owned sector, foreign-invested firms, and, on the other hand, a quite limited number of strong players in the private sector (Kroll 2011;Kroll and Frietsch 2014). While state-owned firms often prevail in traditional, mature industries, private and foreign-invested enterprises have come to dominate in modern sectors like IT or telecommunications.…”

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Exploring pathways of regional technological development in China through patent analysis

Kroll

2016

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“…In Western countries, establishing spin-offs is an interplay of academic entrepreneurs, parent organisations and venture investors. Chinese UREs try to perform all three roles at once, integrating several stages of the research, development and commercialisation process into one organisational entity (Kroll and Liefner 2008).…”

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Implementing the Triple Helix model in a non-Western context: an institutional logics perspective

Cai

2014

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While there is a common belief among policymakers and academics around the world that Triple Helix relationships between university, industry and government provide optimal conditions for innovation, it should be noted that the Triple Helix concept has been developed from the experience of advanced economies in the West. There is a lack of theoretical considerations and empirical evidence on whether the Triple Helix model is applicable in non-Western contexts. Following the understanding that the evolution of an ideal Triple Helix model is facilitated by certain institutional logics in Western societies, this paper takes China as an example to examine how the institutional logics in China are different from those of the West and how the institutional logics in China would promote or impede the development of the Triple Helix model in China in light of an extensive review of the relevant literature and policy documents. The study suggests that to optimise the Chinese innovation policies, China needs on the one hand to adjust some elements of its institutional environment to facilitate the interactions between key innovation actors and on the other hand to be innovative in developing its own Triple Helix modes given the unique Chinese institutional environment which will persist in the foreseeable future.

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Spin-off enterprises as a means of technology commercialisation in a transforming economy—Evidence from three universities in China

Cited by 201 publications

References 44 publications

“To have and have not”: founders’ human capital and university start-up survival

“To have and have not”: founders’ human capital and university start-up survival

Exploring pathways of regional technological development in China through patent analysis

Implementing the Triple Helix model in a non-Western context: an institutional logics perspective

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