TY  - BOOK
N2  - Despite their significance, firms created by students have been the subject of little research. Adopting the entrepreneurial ecosystem framework, this paper examines the growth of student start-ups, especially those that participate in university accelerators. Focused on the University of Toronto, this paper contributes to an understanding of how university accelerators can better support the entrepreneurial efforts of students. It is clear that firms that participate in accelerators with a screening process have a stronger performance in both employment and product growth. Moreover, a habitual entrepreneur director or a more intensive accelerator program is found to have more positive effects on product growth at firms than on employment growth.
AB  - Despite their significance, firms created by students have been the subject of little research. Adopting the entrepreneurial ecosystem framework, this paper examines the growth of student start-ups, especially those that participate in university accelerators. Focused on the University of Toronto, this paper contributes to an understanding of how university accelerators can better support the entrepreneurial efforts of students. It is clear that firms that participate in accelerators with a screening process have a stronger performance in both employment and product growth. Moreover, a habitual entrepreneur director or a more intensive accelerator program is found to have more positive effects on product growth at firms than on employment growth.
T1  - Fostering the growth of student start-ups from university accelerators: an entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective.
AU  - Breznitz, Shiri M.,
AU  - Zhang, Qiantao,
JF  - Industrial and Corporate Change,
VL  - Volume 28, Issue 4
LA  - eng
ID  - 47782
KW  - Universities
KW  - Technology
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Entrepreneurship
SN  - 0960-6491 (Print)
SN  - 1464-3650 (Online)
TI  - Fostering the growth of student start-ups from university accelerators: an entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective.
LK  - https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtz033
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtz033
ER  -