Leveraging the Lab: How Pre-Founding R&D Collaboration Influences the Internationalization Timing of Academic Spin-Offs

Autor:	Achim Walter, Nicole Coviello, Monika Sienknecht, Thomas Ritter
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Early internationalization International new venture Economics and Econometrics Cognitive load R&D collaboration Cognitive diversity Business and International Management Academic spin-off
Zdroj:	Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. :104225872211416
ISSN:	1540-6520 1042-2587
DOI:	10.1177/10422587221141678
Popis:	Research shows that early internationalization is more likely when founders have international and business-related experience. But what if experience was obtained in other ways? We study the scientist-founders of 149 academic spin-offs (ASOs), using cognition theory to argue for a curvilinear relationship between breadth of pre-founding R&D collaboration and internationalization timing. Our longitudinal study combines survey and patent data to show that increased breadth of collaboration with international scientists increases and then decreases the likelihood of early internationalization. The results are similar but less robust for collaboration with industry partners. Our findings suggest that studies on experience in new venture internationalization underestimate the role of R&D collaboration and the research-based heritage of many new firms.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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