RT journal article
T1 The Social Innovation of Academic Spin-Offs From a Multilevel Approach
A1 Camelo Ordaz, María del Carmen
A1 Diánez González, Juan Pablo
A1 Franco Leal, Noelia
A1 Sousa Ginel, Elena
A2 Organización de Empresas
K1 Academic entrepreneurship
K1 multilevel analysis
K1 social innovation
K1 university social responsibility
AB The academic entrepreneurship literature has yet to consider the factors that affect social innovation in academic spin-offs. Given this gap, this study adopted a knowledge-based perspective and considers the antecedents of social innovation at two levels of analysis: academic spin-offs and parent universities. Specifically, we analyzed the influence of academic spin-offs' technological competence, entrepreneurial team functional heterogeneity, and funding type; and the moderating role of the parent university's social responsibility. A multilevel analysis was applied to a sample of 165 academic spin-offs. The results revealed that technological competence, entrepreneurial team functional heterogeneity, and public funding sources positively influenced social innovation. However, venture capital funding negatively affected innovation. The results also showed that the parent university's social responsibility moderated the effect of functional heterogeneity but not the influence of technological competence. These findings contribute to the integration of the academic entrepreneurship literature within the field of social innovation.
PB Wiley
SN 1535-3958
YR 2025
FD 2025-01-21
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/40128
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/40128
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 05-nov-2026