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...