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Marie C. Thursby - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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university Incubator firm knowledge flows assessing their impact on Incubator firm performance
2005Co-Authors: Frank T. Rothaermel, Marie C. ThursbyAbstract:Technology Incubators are university-based technology initiatives that should facilitate knowledge flows from the university to the Incubator firms. We thus investigate the research question of how knowledge actually flows from universities to Incubator firms. Moreover, we assess the effect of these knowledge flows on Incubator firm-level differential performance. Based on the resource-based view of the firm and the absorptive capacity construct, we advance the overarching hypothesis that knowledge flows should enhance Incubator firm performance. Drawing on longitudinal and fine-grained firm-level data of 79 technology ventures incubated between 1998 and 2003 at the Advanced Technology Development Center, a technology Incubator sponsored by the Georgia Institute of Technology, we find some support for knowledge flows from universities to Incubator firms. Our evidence suggests that Incubator firms' absorptive capacity is an important factor when transforming university knowledge into firm-level competitive advantage.
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University–Incubator firm knowledge flows: assessing their impact on Incubator firm performance
Research Policy, 2005Co-Authors: Frank T. Rothaermel, Marie C. ThursbyAbstract:Abstract Technology Incubators are university-based technology initiatives that should facilitate knowledge flows from the university to the Incubator firms. We thus investigate the research question of how knowledge actually flows from universities to Incubator firms. Moreover, we assess the effect of these knowledge flows on Incubator firm-level differential performance. Based on the resource-based view of the firm and the absorptive capacity construct, we advance the overarching hypothesis that knowledge flows should enhance Incubator firm performance. Drawing on longitudinal and fine-grained firm-level data of 79 technology ventures incubated between 1998 and 2003 at the Advanced Technology Development Center, a technology Incubator sponsored by the Georgia Institute of Technology, we find some support for knowledge flows from universities to Incubator firms. Our evidence suggests that Incubator firms’ absorptive capacity is an important factor when transforming university knowledge into firm-level competitive advantage.
Anne Bøllingtoft - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the bottom up business Incubator leverage to networking and cooperation practices in a self generated entrepreneurial enabled environment
Technovation, 2012Co-Authors: Anne BøllingtoftAbstract:Abstract The purpose of this study is to report the findings of an exploratory study of two self-generated, entrepreneurial-enabled environments labeled ‘bottom-up business Incubators'. They are characterized by being jointly established by the entrepreneurs, they are not supported by public or private funds, thus, they carry no costs for society. The bottom-up business Incubators share the same overall traits as for business Incubators as described in the literature, e.g. co-location of businesses and access to shared equipment, but in contrast to traditional business Incubators, it is characterized by being based on mutual recognition of the value of networking as well as cooperation among the firms. Based on observations and interviews with tenant firms, the study identifies networking and cooperation activities among the entrepreneurs. Furthermore, the study investigates the role of the bottom-up business Incubator in terms of facilitating and enabling the conditions for internal networking and cooperation among the entrepreneurs, thus, how the business Incubators become a formal mechanism for embedding the companies in entrepreneurial networks. The closing section of the paper addresses the implications for research and practitioners.
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The Networked Business Incubator: Leveraging Entrepreneurial Agency
2007Co-Authors: Anne Bøllingtoft, John P. UlhøiAbstract:Recent years have seen the emergence of a new Incubator model, the "networked Incubator", which is a hybrid form of the archetypal business Incubators, based on territorial synergy, relational symbiosis and economies of scale, to the benefit of the participating 'incubatees'. The question addressed in this paper is why this new model has emerged and what distinguishes it from the more traditional Incubator model. The theoretical basis of the research is social capital theory. Empirically, the paper is based on 6 months' ethnographic data collected in one of the first known networked Incubators. The closing section of the paper addresses the implications for research and practitioners.
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the networked business Incubator leveraging entrepreneurial agency
Journal of Business Venturing, 2005Co-Authors: Anne Bøllingtoft, John P. UlhøiAbstract:Abstract Recent years have seen the emergence of a new Incubator model, the “networked Incubator”, which is a hybrid form of the archetypal business Incubator (BI), based on territorial synergy, relational symbiosis, and economies of scope. This paper looks at why this new model has emerged and what distinguishes it from the more traditional Incubator model. The theoretical basis of the research is social capital theory. Empirically, the paper is based on 6 months of ethnographic data collected in one of the first known and documented networked Incubators. The closing section of the paper addresses the implications for research and practitioners.
Lise Aaboen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The network mediation of an Incubator : How does it enable or constrain the development of Incubator firms' business networks?
Industrial Marketing Management, 2019Co-Authors: Tommy Shih, Lise AaboenAbstract:Incubators are organisations or structures that usually offer five types of services in order to accelerate start-up development: access to physical resources, administrative services, access to financial resources, assistance with start-up procedures and access to networks. The aim of the present paper is to investigate the mediating role of the Incubator. More specifically, it examines how the Incubator's mediation is related to Incubator firms' development of broader business networks. The primary data comprised 34 face-to-face interviews with 19 respondents from an Incubator and its Incubator firms and with other actors with which the Incubator had a relationship. The paper offers three conclusions concerning how the network horizon influences the Incubator's capacity to mediate relationships, the necessity for Incubator firms to be proactive in order to utilise the mediation activities of the Incubator and the influence of public-funding agencies in the development of Incubator firms, which is based on their role as third actors in connected business relationships.
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Explaining Incubators using firm analogy
Technovation, 2009Co-Authors: Lise AaboenAbstract:Incubators are initiated to accelerate the development of new technology-based firms. Policy actors see them as a tool to initiate or revive innovativeness in regions and universities as a way to commercialize research results. However, even though the intended results of the Incubator are good it is not known how the Incubator should be managed and organized in order to achieve this end. When faced with a new type of organizations analogies can provide insights gathered from other contexts. To contribute to the further understanding of Incubators this paper discuss the implications, in terms of highlighted dimensions and further clarifications needed when using the analogy of a firm. The paper uses empirical findings from six Incubators. The discussion shows it is not clear who is the actual customer of the Incubator. For example, can the policy actors that provide the funding to the Incubator be seen as a customer paying for the service of regional revival and the NTBFs customers when their fees are not in relation to the services they are provided? In the discussion it is suggested that the Incubator can have many customers with different value creation processes or no customers depending on the viewpoint taken.
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Towards Incubator facilitation of technology transfer
International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, 2008Co-Authors: Lise Aaboen, Peter Lindelöf, Hans LöfstenAbstract:This paper explores Incubator facilitation of technology transfer for their New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs). Empirical evidence gathered from six interviews with Incubator managers, together with a survey of 131 NTBFs in Incubators in Sweden, in 2005, and the findings made in a survey of 273 NTBFs situated inside-and-outside Science Parks in 1999, are used for the exploration. It is suggested that Incubators do facilitate technology transfer for their NTBFs. It is further suggested that the development towards increased ability to facilitate technology transfer will continue as a results of the efforts made on the Incubator and systemic level.
John P. Ulhøi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Networked Business Incubator: Leveraging Entrepreneurial Agency
2007Co-Authors: Anne Bøllingtoft, John P. UlhøiAbstract:Recent years have seen the emergence of a new Incubator model, the "networked Incubator", which is a hybrid form of the archetypal business Incubators, based on territorial synergy, relational symbiosis and economies of scale, to the benefit of the participating 'incubatees'. The question addressed in this paper is why this new model has emerged and what distinguishes it from the more traditional Incubator model. The theoretical basis of the research is social capital theory. Empirically, the paper is based on 6 months' ethnographic data collected in one of the first known networked Incubators. The closing section of the paper addresses the implications for research and practitioners.
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the networked business Incubator leveraging entrepreneurial agency
Journal of Business Venturing, 2005Co-Authors: Anne Bøllingtoft, John P. UlhøiAbstract:Abstract Recent years have seen the emergence of a new Incubator model, the “networked Incubator”, which is a hybrid form of the archetypal business Incubator (BI), based on territorial synergy, relational symbiosis, and economies of scope. This paper looks at why this new model has emerged and what distinguishes it from the more traditional Incubator model. The theoretical basis of the research is social capital theory. Empirically, the paper is based on 6 months of ethnographic data collected in one of the first known and documented networked Incubators. The closing section of the paper addresses the implications for research and practitioners.
Frank T. Rothaermel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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university Incubator firm knowledge flows assessing their impact on Incubator firm performance
2005Co-Authors: Frank T. Rothaermel, Marie C. ThursbyAbstract:Technology Incubators are university-based technology initiatives that should facilitate knowledge flows from the university to the Incubator firms. We thus investigate the research question of how knowledge actually flows from universities to Incubator firms. Moreover, we assess the effect of these knowledge flows on Incubator firm-level differential performance. Based on the resource-based view of the firm and the absorptive capacity construct, we advance the overarching hypothesis that knowledge flows should enhance Incubator firm performance. Drawing on longitudinal and fine-grained firm-level data of 79 technology ventures incubated between 1998 and 2003 at the Advanced Technology Development Center, a technology Incubator sponsored by the Georgia Institute of Technology, we find some support for knowledge flows from universities to Incubator firms. Our evidence suggests that Incubator firms' absorptive capacity is an important factor when transforming university knowledge into firm-level competitive advantage.
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University–Incubator firm knowledge flows: assessing their impact on Incubator firm performance
Research Policy, 2005Co-Authors: Frank T. Rothaermel, Marie C. ThursbyAbstract:Abstract Technology Incubators are university-based technology initiatives that should facilitate knowledge flows from the university to the Incubator firms. We thus investigate the research question of how knowledge actually flows from universities to Incubator firms. Moreover, we assess the effect of these knowledge flows on Incubator firm-level differential performance. Based on the resource-based view of the firm and the absorptive capacity construct, we advance the overarching hypothesis that knowledge flows should enhance Incubator firm performance. Drawing on longitudinal and fine-grained firm-level data of 79 technology ventures incubated between 1998 and 2003 at the Advanced Technology Development Center, a technology Incubator sponsored by the Georgia Institute of Technology, we find some support for knowledge flows from universities to Incubator firms. Our evidence suggests that Incubator firms’ absorptive capacity is an important factor when transforming university knowledge into firm-level competitive advantage.
