Title

Knowledge Transfer Through Inheritance: Spin-Out Generation, Development, And Survival

Abstract

We investigated how the knowledge capabilities of industry incumbents affected the generation, development, and performance of "spin-outs" (entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees). Analyses of 1977-97 data from the disk drive industry supported our hypothesis that incumbents with both strong technological and market pioneering know-how generate fewer spin-outs than firms with strength in only one of these areas. Also, an incumbent's capabilities at the time of a spin-out's founding positively affect the spin-out's knowledge capabilities and its probability of survival.

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Publication Title

Academy of Management Journal

Volume

47

Issue

4

Number of Pages

501-522

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/20159599

Socpus ID

4544220530 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/4544220530

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