The coating process consists of four stages: deposition, spin up, spin off and evaporation.
But when it became obvious that the spin-off process did not work, it was increasingly difficult".
Thus, the spin-off process would give birth to a competitor.
In this view, when a spin-off process occurs, the parent company could 'gain' a new stakeholder.
We examine how the university department context influences the spin-off process from the perspectives of both the spin-off venture and the department.
Hypotheses H2 and H3 allow, instead, to capture more nuances of the process described and provide an interesting interpretation of the post-spin-off relations between the companies involved in the spin-off process.
Particularly important to such attempts is the spin-off process, by which old state institutes incubate new firms and, hence, new and important partners in their struggle to commercialize state R&D.
Second, it advocates the need to develop market research which is able to seize the possible relationships between the behavior of the new firm created by spin-off and the (spontaneous or induced) genetic process of script sedimentation that led to the spin-off process itself.
Thus, the hypotheses testing leads to the following: Hypothesis H1 starts from the evidence sustained by the literature (Maggioni and Del Giudice 2011) that the accumulation of critical knowledge in a promoter of a spin-off process, who is a family member of a family business, originates from a constant 'exposure' to cognitive scripts that are 'critical' for the company, according to its status.
Finally, this study highlights the conditions, which the parent company is recommended to monitor, that may spontaneously lead management to spin-off processes.
The study of the determinants of the scripts underlying spin-off processes helps predict the hypothetical future relations with the spin-off companies and their possible attitude towards the parent company.
