Success factors of university-spin-offs: Regional government support programs versus regional environment |
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Authors: | Rolf Sternberg |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 50, D-30167 Hannover, Germany |
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Abstract: | In recent years entrepreneurship research has increasingly interpreted new firm emergence in the light of the context the potential or real founder is living and working in. This is especially true for university spin-offs, a type of new firms that gives rise to great hopes for policymakers and technology transfer institutions. The aim of this paper is to analyze what is more influential: specific characteristics of the regional environment of the spin-off founder or public programs to support university spin-offs. Based upon a unique data set covering 11 years of data collection we were able to apply a control group approach with two different government support programs in two regional contexts. The results based upon ordinal regressions suggest that the regional context in which an individual starts a firm, has an impact on start-up success, but the fact that he/she had received government support has a lesser impact. To summarize: site specific factors matter, government support programs per se do not. |
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Keywords: | University spin-off Entrepreneurship support policy Germany Baden-Wü rttemberg Northrhine-Westphalia Regional environment |
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