
Dirk LibaersUniversity of South Florida | USF · Center for Entrepreneurship
Dirk Libaers
PhD Georgia Tech
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Introduction
Dirk Libaers' research revolves around new product and service development in startups and more established firms, the R&D and commercialization process, and technology-based entrepreneurship in general.
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January 2008 - May 2014
May 2017 - present
June 2014 - May 2017
Education
January 2004 - December 2008
Publications
Publications (55)
We draw on several lines of literatures to develop a new theory on how CEO power can lead to strategic persistence in a set of new firms that are routinely touted as nimble and agile. IPOs may trigger strategic changes in organizational goals and boundaries. However, prior studies have shown that past organizational success can lead to strategic pe...
Building upon athletes’ positive attributes recognized by the theory of deliberate practice and research in sports psychology, this study examines the relationship between a person’s participation in competitive sports during formative years and the propensity for creating a new venture later in life. The analysis of the biographies of 2,084 Americ...
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We meta‐analyze the structural relationship between human capital, the ability to generate new venture ideas and the favorability of opportunity beliefs to address divergent theoretical predictions and inconsistent empirical findings. We test a two‐stage process model of entrepreneurial opportunity identification, distinguishing be...
Though prior research highlights the organizational and cognitive challenges associated with achieving organizational ambidexterity, there has been comparatively less empirical attention focused on the cognitive characteristics that may differentiate top managers of firms that achieve ambidexterity. We build on emerging research and identify cognit...
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Though prior research highlights the organizational and cognitive challenges associated with achieving organizational ambidexterity, there has been comparatively less empirical attention focused on the cognitive characteristics that may differentiate top managers of firms that achieve ambidexterity. We build on emerging research an...
Product platforming—using technology subsystems or components that are shared within and across product lines—is a proven way to increase the effectiveness of innovation processes in established companies and startups alike. Yet, embracing the product platforming strategy turns out to be difficult in practice, particularly within the context of glo...
The impact of national legislative frameworks on the higher education sector's contribution to technological innovation is heavily disputed. This paper argues that legislative frameworks may stimulate the development of local practices for the management and exploitation of intellectual property (IP), which, in turn, determine the level of academic...
Product platforming – a specific approach to new product development utilizing common technology components or subsystems deployed across multiple products or product lines – has been argued to bring numerous valuable organizational outcomes (e.g., effectiveness of R&D process, superior post-launch product commercial performance, and ultimately sus...
The impact of national legislative frameworks on the higher education sector’s contribution to technological innovation is heavily disputed. This paper argues that legislative frameworks may stimulate the development of local practices for the management and exploitation of intellectual property (IP), which in turn determine the level of academic p...
We investigate how time spent in different collaborative research arrangements by academic
scientists affect their propensity of involvement in the commercialization of novel,
university-originated technologies. Three common collaborative strategies used by academic
scientists: (1) internal (within the research group or within the home university)...
External R&D sourcing may help firms compete in an environment characterized by rapid technological changes. Yet, prior studies have produced conflicting findings on how a firm's technological experience affects the extent to which the firm engages in external R&D sourcing. Although many highlight that firms with extensive technological experience...
Military investments in academic Research & Development (R&D) have a significant
impact on technological innovation and the competitiveness of the U.S.
firms. This chapter reports key insights from a national survey of academic scientists
based at the U.S. research universities. We found that only 12.8% of scientists
in a representative sample of 1...
The knowledge-based view suggests that the innovative performance of a firm is a function of internal and external search for and utilization of new knowledge. Searching for and utilizing of new knowledge to create new products can occur internally, through R&D activities as well as externally, by making investments in creating links with suppliers...
This article proposes a taxonomy of business models used by small, highly innovative firms focused on technology commercialization.
Such firms disproportionately contribute to technological change in the US economy. The firms operate across industries and
use a variety of technology platforms. Exploratory factor analysis of keyword occurrence on fi...
We explore how a firm’s product development experience and patent stock affect its R&D sourcing mode in China. On the one hand, product development experience breadth enables firms to develop greater evaluation and monitoring capabilities to work with external partners and absorb knowledge developed by external partners. As a result, we find that f...
Academic entrepreneurship, defined as the commercialization of innovations developed at universities, is critical for economic growth and wealth creation. In this study, we investigate a critical antecedent to academic entrepreneurship – research funding. Using a meta-analysis of prior studies, we find that research funding has a positive correlati...
This study examines and characterizes the way foreign-born academic scientists interact with private firms. Using status characteristics theory this inquiry explores how foreign-born tenured and tenure-track academic scientists in the 150 most research-intensive U.S. universities interact with the private sector by means of six discrete interaction...
The success of the first product is of paramount importance for the future development of the new venture. Developing and launching a first product in the C hinese market is even more challenging than in a well‐developed market economy because of weak enforcement of intellectual property laws, a general consumer distrust of new products developed b...
This paper seeks to map out the emergence and evolution of entrepreneurship as an independent field in the social science literature from the early 1990s to 2009. Our analysis indicates that entrepreneurship has grown steadily during the 1990s but has truly emerged as a legitimate academic discipline in the latter part of the 2000s. The field has b...
Although foreign‐born scholars make up a significant portion of the US professoriate, little is known about how their ‘foreign‐born’ identity directly or indirectly affects their entrepreneurial prowess. This article integrates role identity theory with theoretical arguments from social network and cultural proximity theories to examine whether for...
This study analyzes how the time allocation decisions of tenured and tenure-track academic scientists in U.S. research universities affect the odds of being engaged in the creation, transfer, and commercialization of novel technologies with one or more industrial partners. Academic scientists are making time allocation decisions across three types...
This study examines the role and differential impact of industrial clustering in the internationalization of small technology-based firms. Serial innovator firms are a set of small, long-lived technology-based firms with a stellar record of inventive success. In contrast, non-serial innovators are small technology-based firms with much weaker inven...
MEYER M., LIBAERS D. and PARK J.-H. The emergence of novel science-related fields: regional or technological patterns? Exploration and exploitation in United Kingdom nanotechnology, Regional Studies. An extensive literature addresses the emergence of new technologies in their geographical and cognitive context. Drawing on a spatial innovation syste...
This paper describes an empirical study of the differences in industry interaction of US tenure and tenure-track academics
that are funded by civilian and military funding agencies. Significant differences in industry interaction as manifested in
a range of different interaction types can be observed between academics funded by Department of Defens...
Foreign-born scientists and researchers have long been a fixture in the U.S. R&D system. This paper examines a key indicator of scientific performance - individual research productivity. In a large sample of public sector researchers in nanoscience and technology, it was found that foreign-born scientists are consistently more productive than their...
This article presents academic business research. The article examines the taxonomy of small firm technology commercialization strategies. The authors argue that small firms that they have investigated likely commercialize their innovation through particular relations with a larger company or organization. An overview of the dataset and methodology...
This study uses an institutional design theoretical framework and a cross-case analysis qualitative research methodology to consider the National Cooperative Program in Infertility Research (NCPIR) centers as an effort to enhance scientific and technical knowledge by designing institutions (in this case the NCPIR centers) to promote the growth of k...
This study examines the role of university spin-out (USO) companies in the emergence of a new technology, in our case nanotechnology. Three unique data-sets based on patents, co-publications, and firm data pertaining to the unfolding field of nanotechnology in the UK were developed. Subsequent analysis suggests that USOs play an important though no...
The development of commercially viable products is of paramount importance for firms that operate in fast-changing and competitive markets. The challenges of new product development are particularly daunting for new ventures that seek to launch new products in the Chinese market (Atuahene-Gima and Murray, 2007). This paper focuses on the developmen...
This paper examines the antecedents and outcomes of first product development processes in new ventures based in China. We develop a resource-based model by relying on an existing framework and adapting it to the Chinese market context. We use full structural equation modeling to test the model on a sample of 694 new ventures in five industries. Th...
This paper seeks to contribute to the fragmented field of IE by reviewing and elucidating the intellectual structure of the field using core bibliometric techniques i.e. citation and co-citation analyses over the time period 1989-2009. By means of a simple citation analysis and changes in citations of the most cited works the contributions to IE th...
This paper utilizes a resource-based perspective and semi-exploratory research design to assess the propensity of academics at US research universities to engage in entrepreneurial activities. We challenge two common findings in the academic entrepreneurship literature. First, we question the notion that more unique and specialized resources releva...
Though foreign-born scholars make up a significant portion of the US professoriate, little is known about their success in attracting research funding and propensity to engage in academic entrepreneurship. A common finding in the literature on academic entrepreneurship is that academics that have more research support in the form of industrial cont...