Academic Spin-Offs at Different Ages: A Case Study In Search of Key Obstacles to Growth

Support to enhance early growth of academic spin-off firms is at the core of many economic policies. Efficiency of this support has been recently questioned due to slow growth of spinoff firms in various European countries. However, despite many studies to improve support, there is virtually no empirical insight into resistance of obstacles that...

How University Incubators may be Overprotective and Hindering the Success of the Young Firm: Findings from a Preliminary Study

This paper investigates to what extent university spin-offs benefit from their parent organization. Drawing from the resource based view and social capital theory we identify the support factors that may turn to interference with the spinoffs business goals. This study has a case study approach and data is collected among high-tech university...

Climate control of incubators related to growth and thermoregulation of newborn infants