The role of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in the creation of university spin-offs
Keywords:
University spin-offs, knowledge transfer, entrepreneurial university, Universidad Nacional del LitoralAbstract
University spin-offs (SOUs) are a knowledge transfer mechanism to the productive sector that has gained visibility in recent decades due to the success of numerous companies that emerged from public institution research. There are several determining factors that influence the development, growth, and performance of SOUs, which are classified into three groups: (i) those related to the inventor and the entrepreneurial team, (ii) those related to the firm itself, and (iii) those inherent to the technology to be exploited.
The National University of the Litoral (UNL) is a public institution that carries out teaching, research, and knowledge transfer activities. Since 1985, it has developed various mechanisms to stimulate technological linkage. These mechanisms, together with political guidelines to support the creation of SOUs embodied in successive strategic plans, have allowed the UNL to currently have six active SOUs.
This work analyzes, with an exploratory approach, the contribution of the UNL to the factors that determine the development, growth, and performance of SOUs, based on the description of the actions that promote their creation.
It is concluded that the UNL contributes to generating the conditions for the creation of SOUs in the determining factors that have to do with both the inventor and the team, as well as with the firm and the technology.
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