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Showing papers by "Sameeksha Desai published in 2014"


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how research context is associated with patent originality and find that when university scientists are partly funded by their own university, they have a higher propensity to generate more original patents than scientists funded either by industry or other non-university organizations.

51 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of scientist characteristics, access to resources and key university conditions in driving the likelihood of a scientist to start a company and revealed that scientist startups are heterogeneous in nature.
Abstract: Knowledge generated in universities can serve as an important base for the commercialization of innovation. One mechanism for commercialization is the creation of a new company by a scientist. We shed light on this process by examining the role of scientist characteristics, access to resources and key university conditions in driving the likelihood of a scientist to start a company. Our sample comprises 1,899 university scientists across six different scientific fields. We make a methodological contribution by using self-reported data from the scientists themselves, whereas most previous research relied on university or public data. Our consideration of six scientific fields is a substantive contribution and reveals that scientist startups are heterogeneous in nature. Our findings are largely consistent with extant research on the role of individual and university variables in scientist entrepreneurship; in addition, we uncover the novel finding that the type of research field is also a key driver of scientist startup activity.

32 citations


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TL;DR: In an efficient economy, capital should be quickly (re)allocated from declining firms and sectors to more profitable investment opportunities as mentioned in this paper, which is affected by the concentration of corpo...
Abstract: In an efficient economy, capital should be quickly (re)allocated from declining firms and sectors to more profitable investment opportunities. This process is affected by the concentration of corpo ...

7 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically examine how institutions interact to influence the informal entrepreneurship and find no relationship between regulatory institutions, normative institutions and the rate of informal entrepreneurship in innovation-driven countries.
Abstract: There is increasing scholarly interest in informal entrepreneurship. We empirically examine how institutions interact to influence the informal entrepreneurship. Using a novel multi-source dataset we test institutional drivers of informal entrepreneurship in 28 innovation-driven countries during 2004-2011. Our results show that cognitive institutions inhibit informal entrepreneurship. Contrary to received wisdom in the literature, we find no relationship between regulatory institutions, normative institutions and the rate of informal entrepreneurship in innovation-driven countries. We find that regulatory institutions moderate the influence of cognitive institutions on informal entrepreneurship. Our study on informal entrepreneurship advances knowledge on heterogeneous entrepreneurial outcomes.

4 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how research context is associated with patent originality and find that when university scientists are partly funded by their own university, they have a higher propensity to generate more original patents than scientists funded either by industry or other non-university organizations.
Abstract: Scientific breakthroughs coming from universities can contribute to the emergence of new industries, such as in the case of biotechnology. Obviously, not all research conducted in universities leads to a radical change from existing technological trajectories. Patents and patent dynamics have long been recognized as critical in understanding the emergence of new technologies and industries. Specifically, patent citations provide insight into the originality of a discovery that has received patent protection. Yet while a large body of literature addresses the impact of patent originality on various firm performance measures, we address the question of what conditions drive patent originality in the process of knowledge creation within the university. Using data on patented cancer research, we examine how research context – as reflected by the funding source for each scientist – is associated with patent originality. We find that when university scientists are partly funded by their own university, they have a higher propensity to generate more original patents. By contrast, university scientists funded either by industry or other non-university organizations have a lower propensity to generate more original patents. The significance of our findings in the cancer research setting call for further research on this question in other research fields.

2 citations