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The Impact of Institution Quality, Cluster Strength and TLO Licensing Capacity on the Rate of Academic Staff Spin-offs
The Impact of Institution Quality, Cluster Strength and TLO Licensing Capacity on the Rate of Academic Staff Spin-offs
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Avnimelech, Gil
Feldman, Maryann
Feldman, Maryann
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This paper examines the spawning of new company founders' from 124 leading
U.S. academic institutions, using a unique database. We examine both local and non-local
spin-offs of academic faculty members. Accordingly, the rate of spawning is positively
affected by the institution quality, the strength of the local entrepreneurial cluster in the
region where the institution is located, and the share of R&D expenditure financed by
the federal government. On the other, hand the effectiveness of the university
technology licensing office (measured by license revenues per R&D expenditure) has a
negative impact on the rate of academic spawning. Moreover, we find evidence that after
controlling for the entire institution rank, the rank of the business school has a positive
and significant impact on the institution spawning rate. When comparing the local spinoffs
to non-local spin-offs we find that 42% of faculty spin-offs are created in the region
of the academic institution. This finding contrasts the common notion that most of the
academic spin-offs are local. Not surprisingly, we find that local cluster culture and local
availability of VC has very limited impact on non-local academic spin-offs. Moreover,
institution R&D expenditure and sources of R&D finance has low impact on non-local
academic spin-offs.
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2011-09-17
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