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Locational Dynamics of Academic Spin-Offs: Evidence from Brazil

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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 São 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.

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  • Academic spin-offs
  • Geography of entrepreneurship
  • Regional development
  • Universities

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    The research’s qualitative phase was previously validated by the Research Ethics Committee of the authors’ institution, registered under the process no. 89010418.2.0000.8142.

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  1. School of Applied Sciences, University of Campinas, Limeira, Brazil

    Filipe Scorsatto & Bruno Fischer

  2. Institute of Geosciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

    Paola Rücker Schaeffer

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  1. Federal University of ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil

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  2. Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil

    Dr. José Reginaldo Hughes Carvalho

  3. Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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  4. Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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  5. Fedderal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

    Prof. Victor Juliano De Negri

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The research’s qualitative phase was previously validated by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Campinas, Brazil, registered under the process no. 89010418.2.0000.8142.

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Scorsatto, F., Fischer, B., Schaeffer, P.R. (2021). Locational Dynamics of Academic Spin-Offs: Evidence from Brazil. In: Pereira, L., Carvalho, J., Krus, P., Klofsten, M., De Negri, V. (eds) Proceedings of IDEAS 2019. IDEAS 2018. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 198. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55374-6_7

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