Evolving missions and university entrepreneurship: academic spin-offs and graduate start-ups in the entrepreneurial society

Chiara Marzocchi (), Fumi Kitagawa and Mabel Sánchez-Barrioluengo
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Chiara Marzocchi: Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, The University of Manchester
Fumi Kitagawa: University of Edinburgh Business School

The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2019, vol. 44, issue 1, No 8, 167-188

Abstract: Abstract A recent call has urged to broaden the conceptualization of university entrepreneurship in order to appreciate the heterogeneity of contexts and actors involved in the process of entrepreneurial creation. A gap still persists in the understanding of the variety of ventures generated by different academic stakeholders, and the relationships between these entrepreneurial developments and university missions, namely, teaching and research. This paper addresses this particular gap by looking at how university teaching and research activities influence universities’ entrepreneurial ventures such as academic spin-offs and graduate start-ups. Empirically, we analyse the English higher education sector, drawing on institutional data at the university level. First, we explore the ways in which teaching and research activities are configured, and secondly, we examine how such configurations relate to academic spin-offs and graduate start-ups across different universities over time. Our findings suggest, first, that the evolution of USOs and graduate start-ups exhibit two different pathways over time; and second, that teaching and research both affect entrepreneurial ventures but their effect is different.

Keywords: Academic entrepreneurship; Graduate start-ups; University spin-offs; Teaching; Research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 L26 M31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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