The Effects of the Academic Environment on PhD Entrepreneurship: New Insights from Survey Data

Alessandro Muscio, Sotaro Shibayama () and Laura Ramaciotti ()
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Sotaro Shibayama: Lund University, School of Economics and Management
Laura Ramaciotti: Università di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Economia e Management

Chapter Chapter 10 in University-Industry Knowledge Interactions, 2022, pp 179-199 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates PhD entrepreneurship. We focus on the university factors most closely associated to: (1) students’ success in starting a business venture; (2) students’ startup intention; (3) students’ abandoning the entrepreneurial idea. The empirical analysis is based on data from a questionnaire survey, administered in 2016 in Italy. We focus on four factors related to the university entrepreneurial environment: (1) university entrepreneurship policy frameworks; (2) PhD orientation to business problems; (3) entrepreneurship training; (4) PhD lab reputation. We find that the academic environment can have a fundamental impact on students’ decisions to start new ventures and on their entrepreneurial attitude.

Keywords: Student entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial university; Start-up; PhDs; Firm creation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84669-5_10

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