The role of incubators and regional factors influencing the location decision of academic spin-offs: An exploratory study in Delft and Wageningen

The recent years have witnessed university business incubators being major contributors to regional development by supporting and nurturing academic spin-offs, and fostering innovation. However, with the academic spin-offs scaling up, they decide to exit the incubator and sometimes even migrate to another city or region. This study recognizes...

Exploring Team-formations And The Evolution Of Network-formations Of High-Tech Academic Spin-offs

As our modern society keeps changing, the role of universities as a source of creating opportunities for academic entrepreneurs to transform their scientific knowledge into a viable business is becoming significantly important. Even though academic institutions and universities have played a big role in the transfer of knowledge into...

University funding instruments: an assessment of the Delft Enterprises case study

Networks and entrepreneurial behavior: Exploring their impact on the realized absorptive capacity as academic spin-offs grow older

Academic spin-off firms in Delft and Trondheim: How academic spin-off firms match incoming information with the resources they are lacking and how this affects their growth

Academic spin-off firms tend to grow slowly which decreases the effectiveness of policies enhancing the knowledge based economy. The average growth of the 105 academic spin-off firms in this research is 1.2 fte per year, however the median is only 0.4 fte per year. In order to increase the speed at which academic spin-off firms grow, insight in...

A Firm Demographic Approach to Academic Spin-Off Survival and Growth

Delft is known as a city of knowledge and technology in the Netherlands. The research institute TNO, the Technical University and also the business incubator in Delft are designated to encourage the rare creation of new economic activity. Academic spin off firms believed to be the new potential source of innovation leveraging the economic growth...