Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Clayton, P. 2024. “Mentored without incubation: Start-up survival, funding, and the role of 

entrepreneurial support organization services”. Research Policy, in publication.

Clayton, P., Feldman, M., and B. Montmartin. 2023. “Financing Regional Industrial Emergence”. 

Small Business Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-023-00827-6.

Clayton, P. 2023. “Different Outcomes for Different Founders: Local Organizational Sponsorship and 

Entrepreneurial Finance.” Small Business Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-023-00753-7.

Oh, J.*, Clayton, P. and Feldman, M. 2022. “Accelerator Niches in an Emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: New York City.” Local Economy.

Clayton, P., Lanahan, L., and A. Nelson. 2022. “Dissecting Diffusion: Tracing the Plurality of Factors that Shape Knowledge Diffusion.” Research Policy.

Zhang, Q., P.A. Clayton, and S.M. Breznitz. 2022. “The Hope Fulfilled? Measuring Research Performance of Universities in the Economic Crisis”. International Regional Science Review.

Clayton, P., and Feldman, M. 2021. “Academic Teams and Commercialization in the Life Sciences.” Frontiers in Research Metrics & Analytics, 6, 733073. https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2021.733073.

Clayton, P., Feldman, M., and E. Nwakpuda. 2021. “After the IPO: Entrepreneurs’ Transition to Philanthropy”. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 15: e00236.

Clayton, P., Donegan, M., Feldman, M., Forbes, A., Lowe, N., and P. Polly. 2019. “Local prior employment and ecosystem dynamics”. Industrial Labor & Relations Review.

Donegan, M., Forbes, A., Clayton, P., Polly, A., Feldman, M., and N. Lowe. 2019. “The tortoise, the hare, and the hybrid: Prior employment and its effect on ecosystem emergence and entrepreneurial performance”. Industrial & Corporate Change, 28(4): 899-920.

Clayton, P.A. 2018. “Innovation in local economic development strategy: The Wireless Research Center of North Carolina”. Geography Compass, 12: 1-13.

Clayton, P.A., Feldman, M.P., and N. Lowe. 2018. “Behind the scenes: Intermediary organizations that facilitate science commercialization through entrepreneurship”. Academy of Management Perspectives, 32, 104-124.

Breznitz, S.M., Clayton, P.A., Defazio, D., and K.R. Isett. 2018. “Have you been served? The impact of university entrepreneurial support on firms’ network formation”. Journal of Technology Transfer, 43(2), 343-367.

Clayton, P.A., and D. Mackay. 2017. “Experienced utility or decision utility for QALY calculation? Both”. Public Health Ethics, 11(1): 82-89. 

Book Chapters in Edited Volumes

Feldman, M. P. and P.A. Clayton. 2019. “Institutions and the Embedded Entrepreneur:” In Jeffrey J. Reuer, Sharon F. Matusik, and Jessica Jones, editors Oxford Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Collaboration. Oxford University Press.

Breznitz S.M. and P.A. Clayton. 2015. “One City, Three Universities, Multiple Models of Economic Impact.” In David B. Audretsch and Mary L. Walshok, editors Oxford Handbook of Local Competitiveness. Oxford University Press. 

Feldman, M. P. and P.A. Clayton. 2015. “The American Experience in University Technology Transfer.” In S.M. Breznitz and H. Etzkowitz, editors University Technology Transfer: The Globalization of Academic Innovation. Routledge.

Other Publications

Feldman, M.P. and Clayton, P.A. 2020. “Applying Engineering Systems Thinking to Benefit Public Policy.” The Bridge 50th Anniversary Issue. National Academy of Engineering. 

Clayton, P.A. 2020. “Essays on the Development of Entrepreneurial Regions", unpublished dissertation.

Clayton, P.A. 2015. “Understanding the public procurement of innovation”. [Review of the book Public Procurement and Innovation: The Role of Institutions, by Max Rolfstam]. Science and Public Policy, 42(5): 738-739.