Arbeitspapier

Who Founds? An Analysis of University and Corporate Startup Entrepreneurs Based on Danish Register Data

We compare individuals presently employed either at an university or at a firm from a R&D intensive sector and analyze which of their personal-specific and employer-specific characteristics determine their choice of subsequently founding a startup. Our data set is unusually rich and combines the population of Danish employees with their present employers. We focus on persons who at least hold a Bachelor's degree in engineering, sciences and health and track them over the time period 2001-2012. We show that (i) there are overall little differences between the characteristics of university and corporate startup entrepreneurs, (ii) common factors triggering startup activity of both university and corporate employees are education, top management team membership, previous job mobility and being male, (iii) it is exclusively human capital-related characteristics that affect startup choice of university employees while (iv) the characteristics of the present workplace constitute major factors of entrepreneurial activity.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12191

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Entrepreneurship
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
Thema
university startups
corporate startups
founder characteristics

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kaiser, Ulrich
Kuhn, Johan Moritz
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kaiser, Ulrich
  • Kuhn, Johan Moritz
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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