Title
Which factors are perceived as obstacles for the growth of Italian academic spin-offs?
Abstract
During the last decades, academic spin-offs have received increasing attention from both researchers and practitioners, mainly due to their ability to advance industrial application of scientific knowledge. In the past, scholars believed that these organisations were subjected to fast growth after their establishment. Only in the last decade, scholars realise that the fast-growing perspective hypothesised was an oversimplification, as the majority of high-tech academic spin-offs growth slowly or remain small in size for long time. The aim of our study is to investigate the reasons that inhibit the growth of established academic spin-offs, focusing on the Italian context. Through the implementation of the Delphi technique and of the fuzzy logic we derive new and relevant results, for scholars, spin-offs' managers and policy-makers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1080/09537325.2016.1199853
TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Keywords
Field
DocType
Obstacles,growth,academic spin-offs,Italy
Sociology of scientific knowledge,Sociology,Fuzzy logic,Knowledge management,Delphi method,Marketing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29.0
1
0953-7325
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.48
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesco Galati1183.43
Barbara Bigliardi2172.74
Alberto Petroni340.48
Giuliano Marolla481.07