Exploring Incubation Performances and Its Determinants

Mario Benassi

Departmental Working Papers from Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano

Abstract: In this paper we explore the issue of academic incubators performances. We first discuss how and why universities entered the business arena to extract value from the knowledge they were creating. We argue that Universities followed two different strategies: a simple goal versus a mixed goals strategy. This dichotomy has made the issue of measuring performances a tricky one. As far as performances in value extraction is concerned, huge differences exist. We suggest that available input resources are not a full account for explaining such differences. We argue that real commitment, specialization of resources and ability to modify and innovate internal processes can explain these differences. We use the Italian case as a test-bed for these assumptions.

Keywords: Incubators; starter-ups (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M16 O32 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-11-08
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