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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Spin-off"”.
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Imprevedibilmente sospesi tra stabilizzazione e istituzionalizzazione: uno studio sugli spin-off della ricerca universitaria
… dibattito si sono presi in considerazione gli spin-off universitari, intesi come processi in cui gruppi di membri dell’università, fondano una propria impresa al fine di commercializzare idee, risultati scientifici e prototipi tecnologici derivanti dalla ricerca accademica. Coerentemente con …
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Competencias y aplicaciones sociales de las TIC en la actividad de transferencia científica y tecnológica en spin-off universitarias
… científicas y tecnológicas que se desarrollan en spin-off universitarias y por otra parte, en las competencias requeridas para un desempeño eficaz en la actividad en el marco de la sociedad del conocimiento, necesarias para el aprendizaje continuo (Salinas, 2004: 1).
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Analysis and Comparison of the Creation of University Spin-off Startups in Deep Tech between the United States and Japan
… exists a substantial disparity in the number of spin-off companies created from these universities between the United States and Japan. Although Japan is not far behind the United States in terms of patent numbers, it significantly lags behind in successfully commercializing research outcomes …
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The Impact Of Divestitures (Spin-offs And Sell-offs) Announcements On The Share Price Performance Of Parent’s Companies: South African Listed Companies
… of divestiture announcements, with a focus on spin-off and sell-off transactions, on the share performance of parent companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in South Africa. The sample of the study for spin-off consisted of 36 companies while that of sell-off transactions …
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Board structure and market reaction to corporate divestiture decisions
… to divestiture decisions characterized by spin-offs and equity carve-outs. It further moves to analyze the determinants of such reaction by focusing on firm specific variables, as well as those characterized by the board structure of the divested firm. To our knowledge, this latter aspect …
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Faculty as founder? : an examination of faculty's role in biomedical start-ups
… faculty inventors' involvement in university spin-off firms formed to commercialize their inventions. In particular, I analyze the association between a faculty inventor's various roles in commercializing his/her invention and the performance of the ensuing fledging ventures. The study is …
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Three Essays On Executive Compensation
… essay one, we examine CEO compensation following spin-offs. We find that CEOs are rewarded for undertaking a spin-off. Change in compensation for CEOs of spin-off firms following spin-offs is significantly higher than that for matching firms. We also find that the increase in compensation …
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Do Malaysian spin-offs create value?
… long-run share return performance of Malaysianspin-off firms during the period January 1980 to April 2011. Using daily and monthly data, thestudy examines the performance of spin-off firms against the benchmarks of Malaysian All-Shares indices.The results show that parent firms significantly …
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Monte Carlo Simulation: When Should a Contestant Stop Spinning?
… Wheel. During these rounds, three contestants spin a large wheel that consists of monetary values from five cents through one dollar in 5 cent increments. The object of this game is to get closest to one dollar without going over in one or a combination of two spins. The two winners of these …
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Spinning off new ventures from research institutions outside high tech entrepreneurial areas
In this thesis, I examine how spinning off new ventures from academic institutions works in an environment outside developed high tech clusters and how it affects models of ventures. I examine these questions by studying the case of Belgium. There seems to be two archetypes of spin-off processes …
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Dynamics of innovation policies and ecosystems in Japan
… MIT, major universities for a large number of spin-off startups in each country, as cases of ecosystems. The study begins with policy and literature review of innovation and entrepreneurship, to understand present studies and policies. Next, stakeholders, system boundary, and causal …
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Business model change in early-stage university spin-offs
… business model change in early-stage university spin-off firms, and how it impacts their performance. This thesis asks: (1) How does the process of business model change unfold in early-stage university spin-offs?, (2) How does business model change link to performance in early-stage university …
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Transitioning international development projects to sustainable businesses : the challenges in commercializing a research project and the engineer-entrepreneurs behind the product
… institutions and the number of research-based spin-off start ups working on commercializing the technologies is significantly less than the number of other research-based spin-offs. This study looks at the characteristics of founders that transition products from research projects to companies, …
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KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION COMMUNITIES: DESIGN CHOICES AND PLATFORM PERFORMANCE
… by new users. However, some feeds were turned off quickly, suggesting that feeds can create congestion. Our results lead to implications for the design of increasingly popular supportive channels in online communities. These channels have the potential to benefit disadvantaged users, but only …
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Lessons from science city projects and their success factors
… (a) transfer of technology, (b) create local spin-off companies, and (c) gain competitive edge by embracing better technology and (d) increase productivity. Thus, in the last half-century, many governments invested heavily on the planning and development of such technopoles with the aim of …
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Neighborhood revitalization through catalyst projects : capacity building and urban design in the West Philadelphia Landscape Project and the Bronx River Project
… case studies: projects can act as models, foster spin-off projects, or provide an overarching framework to enable other projects to engage. Capacity building and catalytic effects are indeed interconnected and mutually supportive. There is no precise recipe for creating catalytic effects within …
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The Automated Laser Position System - ALPS
… for accurate real-time positioning. ALPS is a spin-off of the Automated Position And Control System (APAC) research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation under grant DMC-8717476. The ALPS concept has three primary components: a rotation laser, laser detectors and a central processing …
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Determinants of divestiture choice in South Africa
… on a sample of 102 divestiture transactions (78 spin-offs and 24 sell-offs) over the period 1998 to 2017. Logistic regression is used to ascertain the determinants of divestiture choice using pre-divestiture data of the parent company. The results show that financial performance as measured by …
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Venture Studios: Analyzing a New Asset in the Venture Ecosystem
… support the businesses’ growth from inception to spin-off. This research aims to provide an understanding of the venture studio model and how it differs from other methods of creating and supporting new ventures. The research explores the characteristics of venture studios and their structures, …
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