Startups by recent university graduates and their faculty: implications for university entrepreneurship policy

By Serguey Braguinsky. 2012

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation

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The Climate for Entrepreneurship at Higher Education Institutions (2018, background): “31 as – for example - in the case of top universities like the MIT (Åstebro et al., 2012).”
Technology commercialization: a literature review of success factors and antecedents across different contexts (2016, background): “A properly designed study program that encourages technology development and innovation also seems to increase the number of spin-offs (Åstebro et al. 2012).”
Entrepreneurship education and training as facilitators of regional development: A systematic literature review (2017, background): “What has happened is that more and more universities have played a strategic and fundamental role in regional development (Bramwell and Wolfe, 2008) by contributing to the transfer of research to enterprises, contributing to entrepreneurship education or supporting the process of setting up business”
Conceptualizing academic entrepreneurship ecosystems: a review, analysis and extension of the literature (2018, positive): “Following traditional human capital views, scholars find that technical education levels (Åstebro et al. 2012; Hsu et al. 2007; Sideri and Panagopoulos 2016) and research excellence are predictive of entrepreneurial activity.”
Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of the literature on university–industry collaborations (2017, background): “I collaborations, the ecosystem perspective addresses the university policy developments stimulating entrepreneurship-based economic development promoted by regional authorities (Astebro et al. 2012).”
What makes student entrepreneurs? On the relevance (and irrelevance) of the university and the regional context for student start-ups (2016, background): “While previous literature has mainly investigated start-ups of faculty and staff, i.e. academic entrepreneurship, student start-ups also contribute substantially to a knowledge transfer from the university to the market (Åstebro et al., 2012).”
The impact of local and external university knowledge on the creation of knowledge-intensive firms: evidence from the Italian case (2014, positive): “New KIF creation at the local level is stimulated by the local availability of university graduates, who can found new KIFs (Astebro et al. 2012) or be hired by newly created KIFs (Piva et al.”
Who is the academic entrepreneur? The role of graduate students in the development of university spinoffs (2016, background): “Åstebro et al. (2012), for example, find that recent university graduates are, in general, more likely to start new businesses than university faculty by a factor of 24.3 to 1.”
The entrepreneurial university as driver for economic growth and social change - Key strategic challenges (2019, background): “evidence indicates that students are a far more important source of university entrepreneurship than current or former faculty, and student companies do not seem to be of lower quality than those of current or former university employees (Åstebro et al. 2012).”
The entrepreneurial earnings puzzle: Mismeasurement or real? (2014, methodology): “Optimism, overconfidence, and risk aversion can all be parameterized in prospect theory to explain employment choices (for an example of this, see Åstebro et al., 2012b).”