Fernández López, SaraRodeiro-Pazos, DavidRodríguez-Gulías, María JesúsNogueira Moreiras, Manuel Anxo2022-08-112022-08-112021Business Strategy and the Environment, 31(4), 1334–1346. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2957http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29055Previous research on the firm growth of the university spin-offs (USOs) and itsdrivers yields inconclusive results. Recently, the literature on the high-growth firms(HGFs) has relied on regression quantile methods to study how the effects of growthdeterminants may differ along the firm growth distribution. This study builds a bridgebetween the two strands of literature by exploring how firm-specific characteristicsmay shape sales and employment growth patterns of USOs. To this end, it appliespanel data quantile regression models in a sample of 531 Spanish USOs over theperiod of 2001–2013. The results show that the growth drivers not only differbetween employment growth and sales growth but also along the growthdistributionsengThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. © 2021 The Authors. Business Strategy and The Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Firm growthPanel dataQuantile methodsSustainable entrepreneurshipUniversity spin-offsjournal article10.1002/bse.29571099-0836open access