Incubator firm failure or graduation?: The role of university linkages

By Frank T. Rothaermel, Marie C. Thursby. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Rethinking the Commercialization of Public Science: From Entrepreneurial Outcomes to Societal Impacts (2018, background): “Star scientists are particularly important in the science commercialization process (Zucker, Darby, & Armstrong, 2002), and several studies show the importance of engaging the scientist directly in the commercialization process (Agrawal, 2006; Fuller & Rothaermel, 2012; Rothaermel & Thursby, 2005).”
CEO Narcissism, Audience Engagement, and Organizational Adoption of Technological Discontinuities (2013, background): “Most importantly, however, this industry represents an archetypal case of incumbent firms being confronted with a profound discontinuous change, the emergence of biotechnology (Henderson and Cockburn, 1994; Zucker and Darby, 1997; Rothaermel and Thursby, 2007).”
Show Me the Right Stuff: Signals for High Tech Startups (2013, background): “…the emphasis has been on the value added that venture capitalists provide in terms of selecting better quality startups in addition to their role in providing funds, advice, and contacts (Sahlman, 1990; Stuart et al., 1999; Hellmann and Puri, 2002; Hsu, 2004; Bottazzi, Da Rin and Hellmann, 2008).”
Planned Luck: How Incubators Can Facilitate Serendipity for Nascent Entrepreneurs Through Fostering Network Embeddedness (2020, background): “The literature so far has largely focused on understanding existing relationships with and between particular actors, such as suppliers, companies (e.g., Cooper et al., 2012), and universities (e.g., Rothaermel & Thursby, 2005).”
Strengthening science, technology, and innovation-based incubators to help achieve Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from India (2020, positive): “…or research centers (a) get access to knowledge-based assets (such as technically-trained students and faculty) (e.g., Jaffe et al., 1993; Rothaermel and Thursby, 2005a), (b) help in incubatee startup survival (Rothaermel and Thursby, 2005b), and (c) provide help for incubatee startups…”
Knowledge flow in Technological Business Incubators: Evidence from Australia and Israel (2015, background): “Rothaermel and Thursby (2005a) suggest that incubatees may transform university knowledge into competitive advantage if they have the sufficient absorptive capacity.”
Do graduated university incubator firms benefit from their relationship with university incubators? (2016, background): “…of Education and Human Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA Keywords Resource endowments Economic development Regional development Entrepreneur support organizations Business incubation University based business incubators Graduate firms JEL Classification L21 L25 L26 O33 O44”
Vertical alliance networks: The case of university–biotechnology–pharmaceutical alliance chains (2007, background): “Holding exclusive licenses to university technology is one of the potential sources of competitive advantage of young science-based firms (Rothaermel and Thursby, 2005).”
University entrepreneurship: a taxonomy of the literature (2007, background): “Rothaermel and Thursby (2005b) How does knowledge flow from universities to incubator firms?”
The Role of Accelerator Designs in Mitigating Bounded Rationality in New Ventures (2018, background): “Rothaermel and Thursby (2005a) found that knowledge flows between the sponsor and participating ventures are significant predictors of ventures’ performance, but since they examined ventures at only one sponsor, they did not explore how different sponsors’ designs might influence ventures’ ability…”
Revisiting incubation performance (2012, neutral): “This type has been described at length in literature [2,6,15,18,28,48].”
The Evolution of Business Incubators: Comparing demand and supply of business incubation services across different incubator generations (2012, background): “Furthermore, research has found little or no evidence of BIs’ contribution to university–industry interaction (Rothaermel and Thursby, 2005a, 2005b), innovation activity (Colombo and Delmastro, 2002), or firm performance (Peña, 2004).”