NDLI: Parent universities and the location of academic startups

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Author	Heblich, Stephan Slavtchev, Viktor
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Academic startups are thought to locate in their parent university’s home region because being in the vicinity of a university provides cost advantages in accessing academic knowledge and resources. In this paper we analyze the importance of a different mechanism, namely, social ties between academic entrepreneurs and university researchers, for enabling and facilitating the access to academic knowledge and resources, and therefore for the location of academic startups. We employ unique data on academic startups from regions with more than one university and find that only the parent university influences academic entrepreneurs’ decisions to stay in the region while other universities in the same region play no role. Our findings suggest that the mere local availability of a university may not per se guarantee access to knowledge and resources; social ties are additionally required. The importance of social ties implies that academic knowledge and resources are not necessarily local public good. This holds implications for universities’ role in stimulating regional development.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	15
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0921898X
Journal	Small Business Economics
Volume Number	42
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15730913
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-03-02
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	University startups Academic startups Location choice Social proximity Spillovers Management/Business for Professionals Microeconomics Entrepreneurship Industrial Organization
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics and Econometrics Business, Management and Accounting

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2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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