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- Brunnström, Linus, 1984, et al.
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Designing university impact on society: Reflections based on the Sea & Society and Gothenburg U-GOT KIES centres
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Ingår i: Bruncevic, M., Fellman, S. Soderbom, M. and Styhre, A. (Eds) Sustainable World: 100 year Jubileum of School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg.. - 9789189838277 ; , s. 217-239
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- Brunnström, Linus, 1984, et al.
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Exploring the Role(s) of Researcher-Based Projects in Swedish University Incubators
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. - 2151-6561. ; 2020:1, s. 754-758
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- University incubators are an important part of how universities interact with society (Perkmann et al., 2013; Perkmann et al., 2019). In recent years, they have expanded their role. Beyond supporting academic entrepreneurship, they host and work with a variety of projects initiated by university employees other than researchers (Lindholm-Dahlstrand & Politis, 2013), students (Culkin, 2013), and even individuals without prior ties to the university. The effects of this diversity in terms of founder types have not yet been investigated in an incubator setting. In this paper, we investigate how founder, project and incubator characteristics relate to the likelihood of different types of projects to become knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms that have the potential to bring transforming innovations into the market (Malerba & McKelvey, 2018). Specifically, using a Swedish national dataset covering 37 incubators and a total of 3,383 projects over a ten-year period and applying competing risk models, we analyze the probability of different types of projects to either complete incubation or fail, i.e. exit from the incubator without having “graduated” into a viable firm. Little research exists on the composition of founder backgrounds in university incubators. Prior studies have compared matched samples of incubated and non-incubated firms (Lasrado et al., 2015), or assessed the performance of university incubators relative to that of private ones (Ratinho et al., 2010; Rosenwein, 2000). The roles of university ties (Lasrado et al., 2015; Rothaermel & Thursby, 2005) and networking within single incubators (McAdam & Marlow, 2008) have also been explored. Our paper adds to the literature by providing further insight into how university incubators function, and by analyzing the development of projects with diverse founder backgrounds across a large number of university incubators. We are particularly interested in differences between researchers versus other types of project founders and their projects’ respective likelihood of successfully completing incubation. We further analyze the role of incubator characteristics such as the breadth of admitted projects and incubator experience. We find that projects initiated by researchers have a lower hazard to complete incubation than other founders, but that they seem to create spillover effects on all other projects. Focusing on smaller numbers of project types in terms of founder backgrounds appears to be beneficial
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- Brunnström, Linus, 1984, et al.
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Exploring the roles of researcher-based projects in Swedish university incubators
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Ingår i: Academy of Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings. - 2151-6561.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, university incubators have gone beyond directly supporting academic entrepreneurship by scientists to also support a variety of different activities related to academic engagement. One thing they do is to support a wide variety of projects, initiated by different types of potential founders. In this paper, we investigate which project and incubator characteristics explain the likelihood of different types of founders to turn their projects into knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial (KIE) firms. We address two gaps in the literature: how university incubators function and how the diverse backgrounds of different types of founders (researchers, students, other university employees, independent inventors and corporate spinoffs) may affect their likelihood of completing incubation and becoming a KIE firm. In line with previous research, we find that incubation projects initiated by researchers have a lower probability to complete incubation than the other types. More surprisingly, having research-initiated projects in an incubator seems to create spillover effects on all other projects, increasing their likelihood of survival. Moreover, the probability of projects successfully completing incubation increases if the university incubator has less breadth, as measured in admitting fewer types of project-founders, and if the incubator has more experience, as measured in age.
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- Brunnström, Linus, 1984, et al.
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Managing the Process of Turning Researchers into Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurs
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Ingår i: Academy of Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings. - 2151-6561.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Universities are increasingly engaged with a diverse set of activities, aimed at impacting the surrounding society, including starting firms based on research. But how do university incubators manage researchers? In this paper, the empirical setting is Sweden, where previous research suggests that the Swedish institutional context likely leads to a prioritization of commercialization by firm creation, rather than licensing or sales of IP. The reason is that the individual researcher owns all research outcomes in Sweden and not the university or state. Therefore, our paper explores how incubator and technology transfer office managers (hereafter innovation managers) reason when trying to manage researchers to reach the goal of creating knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial (KIE) firms. Two findings are of particular relevance for the literature. The first finding relates to how interviewed managers view researchers. Although expected from previous research, we provide more detailed understanding of why innovation managers perceive these researchers as being slow, less eager to start a business, and stuck on technical improvements, but also that their ideas are viewed as high-impact ones. Our second finding provides more detailed insights into how these managers developed a number of alternative paths to deal with researchers as potential entrepreneurs and still achieve commercialization. With or without the active participation of the researcher owning the ideas, we detail how these managers pursue two paths towards utilizing researchers’ ideas in order to impact society – namely actively seeking ways to start a KIE firm or actively seeking ways to transfer and distribute the ideas more widely.
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