{"title":"Entrepreneurial Experience and Entrepreneurial Strategy: Empirical Analysis of the Influence of Entrepreneurial Teams with Academic and Surrogate Entrepreneurs on Entrepreneurial Strategy of Research-based Spin-off Companies in Europe","authors":"Rigo Tietz","doi":"10.3990/2.268474892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3990/2.268474892","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyses the influence of entrepreneurial experience in research-based spin-off companies (RBSOs) on entrepreneurial strategy, venture development, and firm performance and uses different sources of information. Besides desktop-research a quantitative empirical analysis addressing RBSOs in Europe will be conducted. The first step was a survey asking technology transfer officers at universities and non-university research institutes about RBSOs at their organisations. In cooperation with the University of Antwerp 1.011 institutes in 24 European countries have been contacted leading to a database with 8,505 companies. In the next step an appropriate sample of RBSOs will be selected and asked for the characteristics of the entrepreneurial team and the strategy of the company. Finally, it will include different sources to measure RBSOs´ performance. This research-in-progress paper gives an overview about the current status quo of the study. It includes a brief review of the existing literature, introduces the research questions, and discusses a subset of hypotheses as well as the theoretical background and proposed methodology.","PeriodicalId":350992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference","volume":"214 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116419871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oliver Uecke, L. Rajendran, S. Schellin, K. Simons
{"title":"Enhancing effectiveness in early stages of technology transfer and entrepreneurship: the case of a new Alzheimer’s disease treatment","authors":"Oliver Uecke, L. Rajendran, S. Schellin, K. Simons","doi":"10.3990/2.268473956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3990/2.268473956","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Biotechnology is considered as one of the key technologies for the 21th century (European Commission 2007). Biotechnology is the “application of science and technology to living organisms, as well as parts, [...] for the production of knowledge, goods and services” (OECD 2005). The global biotechnology industry is still a young industry and has some unique characteristics compared to other industries. Those characteristics are, among others: increasing cost of RD Cockburn and Henderson 1998 p.180). The biotechnology industry is dependent on academic research and therefore there is an increasing number of technology transfer and entrepreneurial activities within research institutes and universities (Kim and Marschke 2005; Branstetter and Ogura 2005). Effective and efficient technology transfer is a must today (Fontes 2001).","PeriodicalId":350992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128723693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}