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Innovation & Management Review

Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the microfoundations of student entrepreneurship... more Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the microfoundations of student entrepreneurship, a cornerstone of innovation ecosystems. To this end, this paper assesses how perceived university support for entrepreneurship influences entrepreneurial characteristics and intentions in students enrolled at Amazonas and São Paulo State Universities. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative approach based on multivariate data analysis using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling was applied to a sample of 420 respondents. Findings Results indicate that the university environment positively influences entrepreneurial behavior and intention in students. Nonetheless, further integration between academia and external dimensions of the ecosystems is necessary to drive more intense entrepreneurial activity in students. The educational contexts of Amazonas and São Paulo present significant differences in the relationship between entrepreneurial characteristics and en...

International Studies in Entrepreneurship

Over the past 40 years, the Bayh-Dole Act has been the most inspiring piece of legislation around... more Over the past 40 years, the Bayh-Dole Act has been the most inspiring piece of legislation around the world. This policy measure has empowered organizations (i.e., universities, SMEs, and non-profit organizations) to be the owners of inventions made by federally-funded research, as well as it has ensured royalties, licensing, and spinningoff to the organizations that have made these inventions. The most consistent output of this policy measure has been the flourishment of the academic entrepreneurship phenomenon around the world (Grimaldi et al. 2011; Aldridge and Audretsch 2017; Guerrero et al. 2015; Guerrero and Urbano 2019b). This has been confirmed by the exponential rising of technology transfer and academic entrepreneurship research over the past three decades (Miranda et al. 2018; Guerrero and Urbano 2019b).

Proceedings of IDEAS 2019

Universities can be perceived as sources of innovation, where academic spin-offs is one of its ma... more Universities can be perceived as sources of innovation, where academic spin-offs is one of its main vehicles. One of the main points of attention in this debate concerns the pivotal role of universities within entrepreneurial ecosystems. Drawing from this background, this research investigates the locational dynamics of academic spin-offs in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, as well as its association with the respective alma maters of entrepreneurs. 1082 entrepreneurial projects were analyzed covering the period 1998-2017. While research-intensive public universities play a leading role in the generation and retention of entrepreneurs at the local level, the distance from developed markets reduces the concentration of spin-offs in the region. This finding carries implications for the notion that university campuses can leverage levels of regional development, since the causal relationships in this process seem to be tied to elements that are endogenous but also exogenous to the university.

Revista de Administração, Sociedade e Inovação, 2021

Todos os direitos, até mesmo de tradução, são reservados. É permitido citar parte de artigos sem ... more Todos os direitos, até mesmo de tradução, são reservados. É permitido citar parte de artigos sem autorização prévia, desde que seja identificada a fonte.

Journal of Knowledge Management, 2021

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive perspective on different facets of ... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive perspective on different facets of knowledge management and their effects on the performance of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial ventures. Design/methodology/approach The empirical setting involves small and medium-sized enterprises located in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Primary data for 223 knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) firms was obtained through questionnaires applied to ventures which applied to the innovative research in small business program, a small business innovation research-like initiative run by the São Paulo Research Foundation. Econometric results assessed the drivers of competitiveness in terms of firm growth, research and development intensification and technology transfer. Findings Results highlight the complexity involved in establishing effective knowledge management processes in terms of driving KIE performance. Notwithstanding, some interesting insights on the moderation effects of...

An increasing body of literature has been generated regarding the role that services play in inno... more An increasing body of literature has been generated regarding the role that services play in innovation systems, in which special attention has been paid recently to Knowledge-Intensive (Business) Services – KIS & KIBS. As not only developed nations but also emerging economies and regions embedded in this countrylevel unit of analysis show an economic structure strongly based in the tertiary sector, it is mandatory for policymaking processes to better evaluate and understand the idiosyncrasies of these innovation-generating services and its relationships with National, Sectoral and Regional Innovation Systems. Thus, this article aims at approaching the dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment (Inward and Outward flows) in KIS in Spain considering the Regional (NUTS 2) level of analysis and taking into account their interactions with the innovative environment of two specific regions (Madrid and Andalusia) by testing a regressive model built upon technological and innovation systems’ va...

Um dos fundamentos centrais dos estudos economicos em nivel regional diz respeito a configuracao ... more Um dos fundamentos centrais dos estudos economicos em nivel regional diz respeito a configuracao espacial da atividade produtiva dentro das fronteiras nacionais, em especial quanto as tendencias existentes de convergencia ou divergencia economica no territorio. A abordagem mais tradicional neste sentido diz respeito aquela desenvolvida pela corrente neoclassica atraves das estimacoes de convergencia β condicional. Nao obstante, estes modelos relevam a um segundo plano a centralidade das politicas publicas no processo de desenvolvimento economico ao longo do tempo. Utilizando dados de 638 municipios paulistas para o periodo 1999-2011, esta pesquisa constroi analises por MQO e por regressoes quantilicas para investigar a complementaridade entre os mecanismos "automaticos" de crescimento economico e o papel das politicas publicas neste processo. Os resultados dao suporte a hipotese de que a convergencia economica na amostra ocorre dentro de uma logica de clubes e que as polit...

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A pesquisa tem como objetivo examinar se há relação entre o investimento direto realizado por mul... more A pesquisa tem como objetivo examinar se há relação entre o investimento direto realizado por multinacionais estrangeiras no setor automobilístico brasileiro e o desempenho exportador do setor para a América Latina.

BAR - Brazilian Administration Review

Research on the concept of entrepreneurial universities has dedicated significant attention to un... more Research on the concept of entrepreneurial universities has dedicated significant attention to understand how academic ecosystems shape the propensity of its members to establish new ventures. In this article we look at a prior step of the entrepreneurial event, i.e., how universities' dynamics and initiatives related to entrepreneurship affect the proclivity of faculty to engage in entrepreneurship support. We propose and validate a conceptual model that directly relates the university ecosystem with faculty engagement, having entrepreneurial experience of faculty as a moderator and analyzing differences between public and private institutions. Data comprises information from 680 faculty members of over 70 higher education institutions from all regions of Brazil. Analyses were performed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equations Modeling. Results point to a strong positive relation between developed university ecosystems and the engagement of faculty with entrepreneurial activities, especially for individuals with stronger entrepreneurial experience. No differences were found between private and public institutions. From a practical standpoint, it is possible to identify more effective, innovative, and systematic ways to implement intrapreneurial practices in universities.

Foresight and STI Governance

U niversities are increasingly perceived as agents involved in regional development. It is now re... more U niversities are increasingly perceived as agents involved in regional development. It is now recognized that academic contributions to the socioeconomic environment go well beyond scientific investigation and teaching activities, and incorporate market-oriented initiatives to the academic mission. However, these effects are geographically bounded. Given these conditions, this article aims at addressing universities' impacts upon output vectors of localized innovation ecosystems. Using data from cities and microregions in the state of São Paulo, Brazil observed throughout the period of 2002-2014, we address universities' effects upon the locallevel generation of patents and utility models, software production and emergence of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship. Besides the scant available evidence on innovation ecosystems located outside developed economies, dealing with a developing country also means we are addressing an analytical unit in which universities play a critical role in terms of knowledge production and

Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental

O mercado de franquias do Brasil tem se consolidado e mostrado fôlego de crescimento invejável no... more O mercado de franquias do Brasil tem se consolidado e mostrado fôlego de crescimento invejável nos últimos anos. Os atores franqueados, o franqueador e os clientes finais compõem a tríade que sustenta este ramo de atividades. Não obstante, a dinâmica de relacionamentos entre estes agentes impõe certos desafios para novos empreendedores. Na busca destas franquias para criar valor mercadológico e diferenciação, o tema de responsabilidade ambiental apresenta grande relevância. Com base nesta proposta, este estudo se dedica a avaliar a associação entre sinalização de atributos ambientais por parte das franquias e seus resultados econômicos de curto prazo em termos de faturamento, lucratividade e tempo de retorno dos investimentos. Utilizando-se de uma amostra bastante representativa de franquias operantes no Brasil, estimam-se modelos de regressão para práticas ambientais independentes e outorgadas por órgãos independentes. Com base nos dados obtidos por meio da estimação de modelos de ...

Revista de Empreendedorismo e Gestão de Pequenas Empresas

Objetivo – Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar a dinâmica de localização de empreendedores... more Objetivo – Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar a dinâmica de localização de empreendedores acadêmicos no Estado de São Paulo e a sua associação com as respectivas universidades de origem.Metodologia/abordagem – Foram analisados 1.082 projetos PIPE/FAPESP no período compreendido entre 1998 e 2017, permitindo a construção de mapas de calor que evidenciam padrões consistentes de distribuição geográfica do empreendedorismo acadêmico intensivo em conhecimento na unidade federativa abordada.Principais resultados – Enquanto as universidades públicas intensivas em pesquisa possuem um papel preponderante na geração e retenção de empreendedores em nível local, a distância de mercados desenvolvidos reduz significativamente a concentração de spin offs nas regiões.Contribuições teóricas/metodológicas - Tal achado traz implicações para o entendimento de que os campi de universidades podem alavancar os níveis de desenvolvimento regional, uma vez que as relações causais neste processo parece...

Science and Public Policy

Revista de Administração de Empresas

The dominant discourse on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE) remains focused on the profile of a han... more The dominant discourse on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE) remains focused on the profile of a handful of successful locations. This has hindered a deeper comprehension of the economic mechanisms that shape evolutionary trends in entrepreneurial activity and how they operate in distinct places. We propose that EE have regularities, but they can also assume different configurations, i.e., varying combinations of influential dimensions. Through fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis, we address this issue with data from the State of São Paulo, Brazil. This research focuses on five EE dimensions: Science & Technology, Human Capital, Market Dynamics, Business Dynamics, and Infrastructure. Findings point at the heterogeneous nature of EE distributed in three different paths. While configurations’ vary in terms of causal conditions, research universities, knowledge-intensive jobs and wider credit operations are core-causal conditions. Proximity to the main economic hub appears as a key...