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"Get it done and create impact" : Exploring early-stage academic spin-off success criteria: a set-theoretic approach.
Torres Adelsberger, Rodrigo (2021) "Get it done and create impact" : Exploring early-stage academic spin-off success criteria: a set-theoretic approach.
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| Abstract: | Academic spin-offs are strategic driving forces of regional growth, innovation and competitiveness in the knowledge-based economy and fundamental technology transfer instruments. However, it has the majority of the ASOs reach only limited organisational performance and fail to produce positive societal and economic value. Institutional efforts have hitherto set an emphasis on increasing the quantity of ASOs instead of procuring their quality. Prior research has mostly focused on the identification of single contextual elements that affect ASO formation. Hence, there is a paucity of knowledge regarding how organisational and individual elements can combine to produce ASOs early-stage success. These combinations represent causally complex relationships that need to be examined comprehensively. To address this issue, I analyse 259 project applications for the Valorisation Grant of the Dutch Research Council and apply Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to comprehend how organisational elements and attributes of the entrepreneurs involved combine to impact the ASO early-stage success in terms of positive funding decision and survival. I find that there are several pathways towards ASO early-stage success. ASO early-stage success is not just a function of the sum of isolated attributes, but rather a function of how these attributes coexist and combine to construct unique causal configurations. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 85 business administration, organizational science |
| Programme: | Business Administration MSc (60644) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/87709 |
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