The project is coordinated by the University of Udine and involves research teams from other 10 Italian Universities. Furthermore, we have established partnerships with 19 research institutions in Europe and outside Europe, and we collaborate with 8 national technology transfer and innovation centres.

Each research team will carry out an in-depth investigation of a specific topic.

Actors, organizations and growth

Udine: characteristics of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial teams in academic spin-offs and independent start-ups; the organisational structure in new ventures.

Bergamo: characteristics of entrepreneurs/teams and organisational structures in firms involved in revamping processes.

Padua: Organizational structures supporting internationalisation processes as drivers of growth for academic and independent start-ups.

Molise: Characteristics of entrepreneurs/entrepreneurial teams in terms of motivations to growth in academic and independent start-ups.

Strategies and growth

Sant’Anna of Pisa: Business models and growth in academic spin-offs. Focus on the relationship with institutional investors.

Trieste: Business models and growth in independent start-ups. Focus on the relationship with institutional investors.

Second University of Naples: Partnerships (forms, actors, goals) as drivers of growth in academic and independent start-ups.

Padua: Business models for internationalisation processes as drivers of growth, both in academic and independent start-ups.

Varese/Pavia: Business processes for a sustainable growth in independent start-ups.

Context and growth

Siena: Technological districts as enabling conditions of the growth in academic spin-offs and independent start-ups.

Molise: The role of institutional actors (such as incubators, scientific parks as policy tools) in the promotion of growth patterns in independent start-ups and academic spin-offs.

Ca’ Foscari of Venice: The enabling role of social networks in the formation and growth of independent start-ups.

Brescia: The role of the relational context in which entrepreneurs are embedded both as direct and indirect (through the influence of strategic and organisational decisions) drivers of growth.