Showing papers by "Rosa Grimaldi published in 2005"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify a list of incubator "characterizing" variables to highlight the main differences between the four types of incubators and to describe the incubating models.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated organizational factors affecting the process through which new ventures are established by academics and are likely to affect their performance, and found that the BI Market Attractiveness at the time of establishment of the new venture is positively influenced by the market orientation of the academic founders, and by their frequency of interaction with external agents.
157 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an assessment based on Italian faculty members who appeared to be inventors of Italian academic patents and find that faculty members get involved in patenting activities to enhance their prestige and reputation and to look for new stimuli for their research; personal earnings do not represent an important incentive.
Abstract: Most of the literature on university patenting activity has focused on institutional and organizational change and on mechanisms to overcome market inefficiencies and spur academics to patent their research results. There is little evidence on the incentives for faculty members to get involved in patenting processes, of the obstacles, and of their perceptions of actions to be taken to successfully support the commercialization of academic knowledge through patents. In this paper we present such an assessment based on Italian faculty members. Our analysis is based on a sample of 208 faculty members who appeared to be inventors of Italian academic patents. Our findings show that Italian professors get involved in patenting activities to enhance their prestige and reputation and to look for new stimuli for their research; personal earnings do not represent an important incentive. Respondents appreciate university-level support mechanisms and the availability of an outside fertile local context (firms, scientific parks, incubators, venture capitalists, etc.). Implications are discussed with regard to the diffusion patenting policies within universities and the implementation of effective mechanisms supporting academic patenting processes.
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01 Aug 2005
TL;DR: Most of the literature on university patenting activity has focused on institutional and organizational change and on mechanisms to overcome market inefficiencies and spur academics to patent their work as discussed by the authors, which is not the focus of this paper.
Abstract: Most of the literature on university patenting activity has focused on institutional and organizational change and on mechanisms to overcome market inefficiencies and spur academics to patent their...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on how both technological and commercialization complementary assets can help attackers erode incumbent competitive advantages and apply their arguments to the video game console industry, where attackers have been able to use their complementary assets to take over leadership of the industry each time a new generation of microprocessors has been introduced.
Abstract: In exploring the role that complementary assets play in the face of a technological innovation, researchers have focused on how commercialization complementary assets help incumbents. We focus on how both technological and commercialization complementary assets help attackers erode incumbent competitive advantages. We show that complementary assets can help an attacker not only to offer a better product, but also to more effectively commercialize the product and position the firm to profit from it. We apply our arguments to the video game console industry in which attackers have been able to use their complementary assets to take over leadership of the industry each time a new generation of microprocessors has been introduced. Our framework has implications for research in dynamic capabilities. It also has both policy and management implications.
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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of university-level support mechanisms, implemented within universities to foster the creation of academic start-ups, are discussed in comparison with local context support mechanisms available to any new start-up in a particular territory.
Abstract: The effects of university-level support mechanisms, implemented within universities to foster the creation of academic start-ups, are discussed in comparison with local-context support mechanisms, available to any new start-ups in a particular territory. Using a sample of 74 US academic start-ups, we show that university-level support mechanisms are considered relevant whenever not replicating other support mechanisms available locally. Academic start-ups benefiting from university-level support mechanisms, ceteris paribus, are 2.6 times more likely to access Venture Capital funding, which in turn allows them to grow in the first years of their activity 22% more than non venture-backed start-ups. Implications on the role and limitations of universities in supporting academic start-ups are presented and discussed.
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