Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183861 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Title:] Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference, Split, Croatia, 6-8 September 2018 [Publisher:] IRENET - Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy [Place:] Zagreb [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 476-484
Publisher: 
IRENET - Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy, Zagreb
Abstract: 
The university-spin off company is a specific but rather effective tool for the direct transfer of knowledge and new technology from academia into business. However, this seems to be still a not very common phenomenon in many European countries. The paper aims to compare the characteristics of universities in European countries based on empirical data for 2465 higher education institutions in Europe retrieved from European Tertiary Education Register database. We examined factors that could have a potential effect on the creation of university spin-off companies in Europe. In order to find these factors we applied logit and probit regression analysis. Our results strongly suggest that those universities which are neither strongly focused on a few fields of research, nor very broad in their focus are mostly less active in creating the university spin-off companies. The intensity of PhD study, the share of tuition fees as well as a number of foreign students seem to be factors affecting university spin-off activities.
Subjects: 
Universities
Spin-off
Research
Tertiary education
Knowledge transfer
JEL: 
O33
I23
M13
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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