The Impact of Local and External University Knowledge on the Creation of Knowledge-Intensive Firms: Evidence from the Italian Case

Bonaccorsi, Andrea; Colombo, Massimo G.; Guerini, Massimiliano; Lamastra, Cristina Rossi

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2316145

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“…Context dependency here can be seen in a very broad sense including characteristics of the legislature and national institutions (Braunerhjelm 2007;Mowery and Sampat 2005), local and regional environment (Colombo and Delmastro 2002;Lerner 1999;Stephan 2013), specific characteristics and resources of universities (Bonaccorsi et al 2014;Link and Siegel 2005), TTOs (Clarysse et al 2011a;Lockett and Wright 2005), as well as the social environment within and across academic departments (Bercovitz and Feldman 2008;Stuart and Ding 2006;Toole and Czarnitzki 2009) and access to financial markets (Carayannis et al 1998). …”

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“…As for the context related to resource base and the type of university, it seems that large and highly competitive universities with developed infrastructure (e.g. Bonaccorsi et al 2014Landry et al 2006Link and Siegel 2005), traditions of starting new firms and entrepreneurial environments (Bercovitz and Feldman 2008;O'Shea et al 2005;Thursby and Kemp 2002) experience success concerning TT and spinning-off new enterprises.…”

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Public policy for academic entrepreneurship initiatives: a review and critical discussion

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This article provides a critical review and discussion of current literature on technology transfer, incubators, and academic entrepreneurship. Drawing upon the notion of robustness in social systems and public choice theory, we review, code, and taxonomize 166 studies to assess the likelihood that these initiatives will generate innovation and economic growth. We find that academic entrepreneurship initiatives are characterized by conflicting goals, weak incentive structures for universities and academics, and are contextually dependent upon factors such as university strength. Our results suggest that there are critical boundary conditions that are unlikely to be fulfilled when universities and policymakers enact policies to support academic entrepreneurship initiatives. Policymakers therefore need to be cautious in the potential design of such initiatives. We discuss how technology transfer from universities might be better achieved through alternative mechanisms such as contract research, licensing, consulting and increased labor mobility among researchers.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article

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Public policy for academic entrepreneurship initiatives: a review and critical discussion

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“…Italy is ranked 28 (Portugal 12; Spain 20; France 30). 15 The combination of celebrating and living its famous history with a hightechnology and future oriented country, experiencing entrepreneurial activities in several ways (Bonaccorsi et al 2014), makes Italy a special and unique country in the world. High tech manufacturing, the production of luxury goods and innovations in modern design as well as in the building and construction sector are core competences and reflect specific secrets.…”

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Industrial policy in Italy and Germany: yet another look

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Lehmann

2016

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Italy, like most European countries, has experienced stagnant GDP growth in the past years. In a recent paper, Lucchese and Nascia (Industrial Policy and technology in Italy, 2016) argue that the decline in the Italian industry could be traced back to the financial and the Euro crises in 2007/08, and is mainly caused by a fall of domestic demand, which itself is rooted in an austerity policy. The authors argue for a paradigm shift in innovation and industry policy away from the horizontal European approach to a more vertically oriented approach led at the national level. In this paper we try to contribute to this discussion by providing another look at the data which reveals a different cause of the loss of competitiveness. In contrast to Lucchese et al., we argue for a more disaggregated level of industrial and innovation policies to foster and improve sunrise sectors and regions. We underpin our arguments with examples from Germany, which recovered from the ''Sick man of Europe'' a decade ago and has emerged as one of the most competitive countries.Keywords Public innovation policy Á New venture creation Á Knowledge spillovers Á European integrationWe are grateful for critical comments from Stefano Paleari an anonymous referee and the editors of this volume. All remaining errors are of course ours.

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“…Related to this is the academic discourse on the economic and geographical dimensions of university-industry links, which tends to focus on tangible, easy to quantify, knowledge transfer mechanisms such as patenting, licensing and knowledge-intensive spinouts (Agrawal and Henderson 2002;Di Gregorio and Shane 2003;Thompson and Fox-Kean 2005). These are normally associated with the commercialisation activities of researchintensive universities, with few knowledge transfer effects being reported in the context of less researchintensive institutions (Bonaccorsi et al 2014).…”

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