Abstract
We investigate the influence of entrepreneurial orientation and team efficacy, in addition to the impact of domain-specific industry and research experience of spin-off management teams, on absorptive capacity, both potential and realised. A multiple regression analysis in 95 Dutch high-tech academic spin-offs indicates that entrepreneurial orientation and domain-specific research experience are positively related to potential absorptive capacity while entrepreneurial orientation, team efficacy and domain-specific industry experience are positively related to realised absorptive capacity. Analyses of the explained variance show that entrepreneurial orientation and team efficacy provide a higher contribution to absorptive capacity than domain-specific experience, which contributes to recent debates on antecedents of absorptive capacity for academic spin-offs.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 95-115 |
Journal | Journal on Chain and Network Science |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- absorptive capacity
- entrepreneurial team efficacy
- entrepreneurial orientation
- domain-specific experience
- academic spin-offs