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3. Career Paths of Academic Entrepreneurs and University Spin-Off Growth

verfasst von : Nora Hesse

Erschienen in: Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, and Regional Development

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

With regard to the perspectives of human capital, university status and role identity, I investigate how the career paths of academic entrepreneurs can influence university spin-off growth. The results from the qualitative content analysis and extreme case analysis show that each university status comprises certain advantages and disadvantages. Academic entrepreneurs are located in a trade-off. More human capital and a higher university status are not necessarily advantageous for long-term university spin-off growth. Instead, the willingness and ability for role identity change in terms of the degree of commitment to the entrepreneurial role is very important. Therefore, it is important to consider the career plans and growth intentions of an academic entrepreneur. In order to compensate certain disadvantages of different university statuses the formation of founding teams with complementary skills and university statuses should be promoted.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Entrepreneurship Capital and Regional Development: A Perspective Based on Intellectual Capital
Nächstes Kapitel The Role of Employee’s Human Capital and the Work Environment on the Creation of Organizational Spin-Offs: Evidence from Spain
Fußnoten
1
Leibniz Universität Hannover had 21,478 students and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 26,381 students in the summer semester 2013 (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2013; Leibniz Universität Hannover 2013).
 
2
These are the MINT subjects (mathematics, computer science, natural science and engineering) and medical science (Kulicke et al. 2008). MINT subjects are comparable with the STEM fields used in English that comprise science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
 
3
See acknowledgements at the end of this chapter.
 
4
Although the cases were also equally distributed between the two chosen universities, I did not differentiate the academic entrepreneurs according to their parent university in this study, because this was only relevant for the research project. For the aim of this present study the parent university was not relevant.
 
5
A few academic entrepreneurs were interviewed at neutral places or by telephone due to distance, space or scheduling problems.
 
6
In a few cases a content protocol was written during the interview if the interviewee did not want to be recorded.
 
7
Qualification phase after the doctorate for a teaching career in higher education.
 
8
Firm’s performance can be measured in many different ways. Common indicators used in literature are survival rate, employment growth, sales growth, productivity and credit rating (Helm and Mauroner 2011). This paper focuses on employment as a measure of performance because it has the most consistent positive correlation with other growth measures and is a key interest among policy makers (Wiklund 1998; Davidsson et al. 2007). Furthermore, it is less susceptible to fluctuations and a good indicator for the university spin-offs’ overall assets (Gibcus and Stam 2012). Nevertheless, these propositions do not apply to all branches equally. Other definitions of university spin-off growth could lead to different results. Furthermore, university spin-off growth should not be equated with success, because success always depends on the respective business goals (Hayter 2010).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Career Paths of Academic Entrepreneurs and University Spin-Off Growth
verfasst von
Nora Hesse
Copyright-Jahr
2015
Buch
Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, and Regional Development

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-12870-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-12871-9

Copyright-Jahr: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12871-9_3

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