Book chapter 2022

The Effects of the Academic Environment on PhD Entrepreneurship: New Insights from Survey Data

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Muscio, Alessandro
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Shibayama, Sotaro
 RL
Ramaciotti, Laura
International Studies in Entrepreneurship
Journal · Vol. 52 · pp. 179-199
Abstract

This paper investigates PhD entrepreneurship. We focus on the university factors most closely associated to: (1) students’ success in starting a business venture; (2) students’ startup intention; (3) students’ abandoning the entrepreneurial idea. The empirical analysis is based on data from a questionnaire survey, administered in 2016 in Italy. We focus on four factors related to the university entrepreneurial environment: (1) university entrepreneurship policy frameworks; (2) PhD orientation to business problems; (3) entrepreneurship training; (4) PhD lab reputation. We find that the academic environment can have a fundamental impact on students’ decisions to start new ventures and on their entrepreneurial attitude. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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Entrepreneurial university Firm creation Start-up Student entrepreneurship PhDs

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Department of Economics, Università degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, FG, Italy
Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds Universitet, Lund, Skane, Sweden
Dipartimento di Economia e Management, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, FE, Italy
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