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Peter S. CohanStartup Citieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3393-1_3

3. Launching Startups from Universities

How Do Universities Shape the Startup Common?
Peter S. Cohan1 
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Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA
 
Universities have a profound effect on the trajectory of a city’s startup scene. Universities do the following:
  • Attract professors and researchers : University professors and researchers develop ideas and technologies with the potential to solve significant societal and economic problems. If professors work with these startups, either as part-time advisors or executives, they may help build successful companies, and students will see them and the companies they build as entrepreneurship role models.

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