Practitioner Articles and Reports

Scott has published and co-published the following practitioner articles:

Business Format Franchising

1. Shane, S. “Factors for new franchise success,” Sloan Management Review, 39(3): 43-50, Spring, 1998. (A research brief of this article, written by David Light appeared in the May-June 1997 issue of the Harvard Business Review).
2. Shane, S. “Why new franchisors succeed,” Report for the U.S. Small Business Administration, December, 1996.
3. Shane, S. “Differences between successful and unsuccessful franchisors” Report for the U.S. Small Business Administration, October, 1995.

University Technology Transfer and Spin-off Companies

1. Shane, S. “Surprises and counter intuitive findings about what makes university inventions appropriate for spin-offs, Report for Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (Japan), March 2006.
2. Shane, S. “What makes university inventions appropriate for spin-offs?” Report for Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (Japan), March 2005.
3. Shane, S. “Analysis and recommendations to strengthen commercialization outcomes of NASA-funded research grants and cooperative agreements at colleges and universities and non-profit organizations,” Report for Nortech and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, January 2005.
4. Shane, S. “University-entrepreneurial firm interaction,” Report for the Business Higher Education Forum, December, 1999.
5. Shane, S. “Technological regime and firm formation,” Report for the Workshop on Technical Risk, Kennedy School of Government, September, 1999.

Firm Organizing Process

1. Shane, S. “The Kauffman firm study” Report for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, September 2006.
2. Shane, S. “The Kauffman firm study pilot” Report for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, September 2005.

New Venture Finance

1. Shane, S. “Angel investing” Report for the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Cleveland Kansas City, Philadelphia and Richmond, September 2005.

1. Shane, S. “Championing innovation in global corporations.” Research Technology Management Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 29-35, July-August, 1994. (Reprinted in R. Katz (Ed.). 1997. The Human Side of Managing Technological Innovation, New York: Oxford University Press.)

1. Eckhardt, J., and Shane, S.  “Innovation and small business performance: Examining the relationship between technological innovation and the within-industry distributions of fast growth firms”, Report for the Small Business Administration, March 2006.
2. Srabstein, O., Fiegenbaum, A., Erez, M., Shane, S., and Givon, M. “The impact of entrepreneurial opportunities on the decision to found a firm and the evaluation of its expected profit” Report for the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Study of Science and Technology (Israel), November 2005.