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A Systems View Across Time and Space

Table 8 Commercialization activities of the new technology

From: Small business participation in the advanced technology program research alliances

Dependent variable

Independent variable

Commercial. pursued by the company

Commercial. pursued by others

A pilot project exists

A prototype exists

New revenues generated

Receipt of additional funding

University

−9127 (0.5220)a

−0.1646 (0.2495)

0.0511 (0.2776)

−0.0631 (0.2575)

−0.0966 (0.2768)

−0.5374 (0.2667)a

Adv. materials/chemistry

−.1359 (0.4762)

−0.0314 (0.3730)

0.9568 (0.4212)b

0.7295 (0.3934)

0.0351 (0.4086)

−0.0799 (0.3885)

Biotechnology

0.4813 (0.5374)

−0.0148 (0.3227)

0.3280 (0.3888)

0.3814 (0.3488)

0.3591 (0.3649)

0.5007 (0.3391)

Electronics

0.5928 (0.4618)

−0.2882 (0.3325)

0.5913 (0.3905)

0.5590 (0.3537)

0.1234 (0.3650)

0.5265 (0.3428)

IT

1.4901 (0.6059)c

0.1442 (0.3318)

1.3002 (0.3821)c

0.5802 (0.3604)

0.6302 (0.3528)a

−0.0104 (0.3488)

Single applicant/subcontractor

1.5661 (0.7383)b

0.5896 (0.3514)

−0.3360 (0.3585)

−0.0076 (0.3401)

−0.4983 (0.3568)

0.1020 (0.3704)

JV member

−0.5995 (0.7084)

0.1890 (0.4094)

−0.9067 (0.4317)b

−0.7465 (0.4103)a

−0.9129 (0.4291)b

−1.5497 (0.4237)c

JV lead

1.3848 (0.5717)

0.9295 (0.4299)b

−0.0955 (0.4473)

0.1210 (0.4230)

−0.2719 (0.4349)

0.1734 (0.4635)

N= 442

      
  1. Standard error shown in parenthesis; a denotes significance at the 0.10 level; b denotes significance at the 0.05 level; c denotes significance at the 0.01 level; All variables are binary (yes/no).