Determinants of corporate accelerator performance: a quantitative assessment

• Autor(a) principal: Hemm, Alexander
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/132588
• topic: Entrepreneurship; Venture capital; Accelerators; Corporate venturing; Corporate accelerator; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

In the quest for innovation, many established firms are launching corporate-startup collaboration programs in form of corporate accelerators. Yet, their characteristics and impact on both the corporate mother, and the accelerated start-ups, is unclear. This study aims to enrich the existing literature by conducting an empirical analysis of corporate accelerator’s start-up performance. Based on a sample of 11,545 start-ups, a significant linkage between corporate acceleration and start-up performance has been demonstrated. This paper further examines potential determinants of corporate accelerator performance. Results indicate that corporate accelerators led by the corporate it self seem to have a positive impact on the performance of start-ups, compared to engaging a provider to run the accelerator for them.