The Effectiveness of University Knowledge Spillovers: Performance Differences between University Spinoffs and Corporate Spinoffs

By Karl J. Wennberg, Johan Wiklund, Mike Wright. 2011

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

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The emergence of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (2014, background): “An important stream of literature analyses the academic background of founders on new venture creation and new venture performance (Wennberg et al. 2011; Audretsch et al. 2012) showing that in particular in the first stages of the new venture, academic background but also past industry experience…”
What makes student entrepreneurs? On the relevance (and irrelevance) of the university and the regional context for student start-ups (2016, background): “By applying the knowledge their founders acquired, these start-ups contribute to knowledge spillovers from the university to the market (Wennberg et al., 2011).”
Founding team composition and early performance of university—Based spin-off companies (2014, background): “Wennberg et al. (2011) introduce arguments which are specific to the university environment, and highlight the need to integrate the founding team with people with prior commercial experiences, but the analysis does not include the type of USO that, according to previous studies, is probably the…”
Contextualization and the advancement of entrepreneurship research (2014, background): “What is becoming clear is that spin-offs involving individuals who enter entrepreneurship directly from academia appear to perform less well than spin-offs where university graduates have obtained commercial experience in a corporation (Wennberg et al., 2011).”
Rethinking the Commercialization of Public Science: From Entrepreneurial Outcomes to Societal Impacts (2018, background): “For example, Wennberg, Wiklund, and Wright (2011) found that spin-offs from private companies in Sweden (that typically do not receive subsidies) outperformed university spin-offs (that have much greater access to subsidies).”
Entrepreneurial education and learning at universities: exploring multilevel contingencies (2017, unknown): “Delaying entrepreneurial effort might be an appropriate result of EE; in fact, as shown by Wennberg, Wiklund, and Wright (2011) graduates that start a business after being employed in incumbent firms tend to found better-performing businesses.”
Conceptualizing academic entrepreneurship ecosystems: a review, analysis and extension of the literature (2018, background): “…generally predictive of entrepreneurial activity among university scientists (e.g., Aldridge and Audretsch 2011; Criaco et al. 2014; Knockaert et al. 2011; Lavie and Drori 2012; Rasmussen et al. 2014; Shane et al. 2015; Todorovic et al. 2011; Wennberg and Wiklund 2011; Wright et al. 2004).”
Academic Entrepreneurship: Time for a Rethink? (2015, unknown): “There is some evidence that the performance of these ventures exceeds those of university spin-offs, which suggests that they yield greater societal benefits (Wennberg et al., 2011, Siegel and Wessner, 2012).”
“To have and have not”: founders’ human capital and university start-up survival (2013, background): “On the other hand, only few studies explore the performance of USU (e.g. Walter et al. 2006; Wennberg et al. 2011; Zhang 2009) and their success factors (e.g. Grandi and Grimaldi 2005; Niosi 2006).”
Mission impossible? Entrepreneurial universities and peripheral regional innovation systems (2016, background): “In common with other empirical studies (Wennberg, Wiklund, and Wright 2011), those authors found that corporate spin-offs (CSOs) were much more growth-oriented that USOs.”
Twenty-five years of research on institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth: what has been learned? (2019, background): “…and transnational entrepreneurship (Collins and Low 2010; Drori et al. 2009; Li et al. 2017), entrepreneurial universities (Guerrero et al. 2016b; Wennberg et al. 2011), family business (Chrisman et al. 2010; Cruz et al. 2012; Debicki et al. 2009; Van Gils et al. 2014; Zahra et al. 2008), green…”