Le spin-off di ricerca e la loro sopravvivenza

The paper tries to explain the strange survivorship of Italian spin-off firms generated by Italian Universities in order to test how much in the next future this phenomenon will turn out to be a link between Research and Industry. After a brief description of the features of the Italian case we show results coming from Survival Analysis, which demonstrate that both excellence of scientific research produced in University Departments and Industrial Sectors affect negatively the survival of spin-off firms.