Measures of entrepreneurship and technological innovation performance: case studies of spin-off companies

The literature has suggested that entrepreneurship, being about the act of new entry or creation of a new venture, is a non-linear process and requires a holistic research strategy. Data from case studies of Australian and some Scottish spin-off companies generated by universities and other public research agencies have been used to explore the relevance of various measures of non-linearity and holism. The data have been further used to explore the Rebernik and Mulej concept of requisite holism as a distributed variable. This analysis has been further extended to examine the relationships between such descriptors of entrepreneurship and more quantitative measures of technological innovation performance.