Opening the black box of university Proof-of-Concept programs: Project and team-based determinants of research commercialization outcomes

Although the literature has explored the direct effect of Proof-of-Concept programs (PoCs) on favoring the commercialization of Research Based Inventions (RBIs), as well as the institutional determinants which can shape the success of these programs, the role played by the “internal” mechanisms in determining the effectiveness of PoCs has been overlooked. In this paper, we analyze the interplay that exists within PoCs between the project domain...