Academic entrepreneurship , startups , firm performance , technology transfer , university spinoff policy , human capital
Abstract:
This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links
with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that
“scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits
from university research alliances, but not necessarily for other university
connections. We also estimate the aggregate employment contribution from
startup firms and attribute those employment gains to university research alliances
and other university connections. We find significant contributions to
employment growth from university research alliances and other university
connections, but scientific absorptive capacity is critical for university research
alliances. Only 7% of the startup population maintained a university research
alliance, but among these firms, 3.4% of their total jobs created were attributable
to their alliances. These results suggest university connections are quite important
for job growth and university research alliances contributed substantially to job
creation for those firms that had such alliances.
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