Print Email Facebook Twitter Social networks' openness, university entrepreneurship and differences between regional innovation systems Title Social networks' openness, university entrepreneurship and differences between regional innovation systems Author Soetanto, D. Van Geenhuizen, M.S. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Innovation Systems Date 2012-05-13 Abstract Enhancing the establishment and growth of spin-off firms from university is receiving an increased attention in local and regional policy today. University spin-off firms are typically in short of resources, reason why social networks play a vital role in their early growth. There is however a lack of understanding of the profile of these networks in different segments of these firms. Building on a resource-based perspective and the concept of open innovation, we explore differences between two types of spin-off firms: highly innovative ones and medium-to-low-innovative ones. The results indicate a smaller growth among highly innovative spin-offs as an impact of among others more homogeneous and more often locally oriented networks. This situation calls for opening of the social networks and gradually growing business networks. The paper speculates on how open innovation and the specific model of living labs may be helpful in this strategy, but also how different urban areas (high versus low density) may influence such strategy. Subject university spin-offssocial networksinnovation strategyopen innovationliving labsjob growthurban areas To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f9670c67-5ca5-42ab-b4cb-f43d544afc26 Source RSA European Conference: ‘‘Networked regions and cities in times of fragmentation: Developing smart, sustainable and inclusive places", Delft, The Netherlands, 13-16 May 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 Soetanto, D.Van Geenhuizen, M.S. Files PDF 291583.pdf 281.04 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f9670c67-5ca5-42ab-b4cb-f43d544afc26/datastream/OBJ/view