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...

Are University Business Incubators Overprotective Parents?: A Knowledge as a Resource-Based Perspective on Growth of Academic Spinoffs using an Open Innovation and Absorptive Capacity Framework

University business incubators are a global rising phenomenon and have an imprint on the genetics of high technology-based academic spin-offs and are central to the triple-helix model of innovation systems for academia-industry-policy. Research focused on Regional Innovation System of Delft suggest that the high technology-based start-ups face...