Azzurra Meoli

TL;DR: In this article, the authors build on social cognitive career theory to examine the relation between entrepreneurial intention and new venture creation (i.e., the entrepreneurial career choice) and model how contextual influences at different levels may favor or inhibit the translation of entrepreneurial intention into new venture creating.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the effect of university regulations supporting academic entrepreneurship on the creation of academic spin-offs and found that the regulation is maximized four years after its introduction and then becomes less effective.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a population-based approach to explore the entrepreneurial activities of 61,115 students, alumni of the 64 Italian universities that are members of the AlmaLaurea consortium, in the second half of 2014.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed whether projects signaling patent technologies have a higher probability of funding success on a reward-based crowdfunding platform as compared with a control group of similar projects, and they found that despite solid evidence in entrepreneurial finance literature on the positive role of patents for accessing financing from professional investors such as venture capitals and business angels, they pointed out a negative signaling role of patent.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data retrieved from the AlmaLaurea database, which includes characteristics of the 2,891,980 graduates who obtained a degree from an Italian university from 2004 to 2018, combined with data on the 236,362 companies they have founded and the 68,852 companies in which they hold equity shares.