Network embeddedness, technology capability and university spin-offs' performance

Abstract

Abstract: The sustainable growth of university spin-offs has been a hot issue in academic and business circles. Based on the social network theory and the resource-based view of the firm, the paper builds a conceptual model among network embeddedness, technology capability and university spin-offs' performance and empirically examines the relationships from 134 university spin-offs in Hunan Province etc. by using structure equation modeling. The research results show that structural embeddedness, relational embeddedness and cognitive embeddedness of network have a positive relationship with the spin-offs' performance, but their roles on the performance are in a decreasing manner; technology capability has the positive relationship with the spin-offs' performance, and it has positively mediating effect between structural network embeddedness and spin-offs' performance, it has also between relational network embeddedness and spin-offs' performance, but it doesn't between cognitive network embeddedness and spin-offs' performance.

Key words: network embeddedness, technology capability, university spin-offs' performance

CLC Number:

F270.1

Yi Chaohui, Luo Zhihui. Network embeddedness, technology capability and university spin-offs' performance[J]. Science Research Management, 2015, 36(10): 94-103.

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