Le determinanti della nascita e del successo degli spin-off della ricerca pubblica

This paper deals with the factors and conditions determining the birth and successful entry of research-based spinoffs from public organisations. This subject has become very critical within the Italian industrial policy debate as during the last decade the amount of these new science-based firms rapidly increased all over the country. A large body of literature analyses this entrepreneurial process and outlines which conditions are critical in order to support researchers, public research organisations and policy-makers in launching successfully new science-based ventures. In the present work, these factors are distinguished in two main types: internal resources of the rising new firm and conditions of the external environment in which the spin-off emerges. Critical implications for academic managers, researchers and policy-makers are drawn by the analysis of the two types of factors.