Entrepreneurship and prior experience as antecedents of absorptive capacity of high-tech academic spin-offs

H. Khodaei; V. Scholten; E.F.M. Wubben; S.W.F. Omta

doi:10.3920/JCNS2015.0003

Entrepreneurship and prior experience as antecedents of absorptive capacity of high-tech academic spin-offs

H. Khodaei, V. Scholten, E.F.M. Wubben, S.W.F. Omta

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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
Pages (from-to)	95-115
Journal	Journal on Chain and Network Science
Volume	16
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3920/JCNS2015.0003
Publication status	Published - 2016

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absorptive capacity, entrepreneurial team efficacy, entrepreneurial orientation, domain-specific experience, academic spin-offs

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Khodaei, H., Scholten, V., Wubben, E. F. M., & Omta, S. W. F. (2016). Entrepreneurship and prior experience as antecedents of absorptive capacity of high-tech academic spin-offs. Journal on Chain and Network Science, 16(2), 95-115. https://doi.org/10.3920/JCNS2015.0003

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