Distinguishing between spinouts and non-spinouts: allocating control rights in biotechnology alliances

Jongwook Kim and Marko Madunic

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 2014, vol. 11, issue 4, 334-356

Abstract: Spinouts are startups founded by employees of established firms in the same industry. Spinouts inherit technological and market-related knowledge from their parent companies. In contrast, non-spinout startups that do not have such close connections to an industry incumbent firm will have a different endowment of technological and market knowledge. Given this contrast between different startups in a risky science-based industry such as biotechnology, we explore whether spinout startups are different from non-spinouts in how control rights are allocated in strategic alliances. We develop a predictive model to distinguish whether an alliance is a spinout startup or a non-spinout startup.

Keywords: spinouts; control rights; strategic alliances; biotechnology; non-spinouts; biotech alliances; startups; spinoffs; predictive modelling. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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