ANNOUNCE: The Effectiveness of University Technology Transfer

[entrepreneurship-phd at lists.uni-due.de]

From: Mike Casey [mailto:mike.casey at zonnet.nl] 
Date: Wed 14 March 2007 12:48

Now publishers announces the availablity of 
Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship Vol 2 Iss 2

This issue is titled:

The Effectiveness of University Technology Transfer
by Phillip H. Plan (Rensselear Polytechnical Institute) 
and Donald S. Siegel (UC Riverside)

Abstract

In recent years, there have been numerous studies of the effectiveness 
of university technology transfer. Such technology transfer mechanisms 
include licensing agreements between the university and private firms, 
science parks, incubators, and university-based startups. We review 
and synthesize these papers and present some pointed recommendations 
on how to enhance effectiveness. Implementation of these recommendations

will depend on the mechanisms that universities choose to stress, 
based on their technology transfer "strategy." For example, institutions

that emphasize the entrepreneurial dimension of technology transfer must

address skill deficiencies in technology transfer offices, reward
systems 
that are inconsistent with enhanced entrepreneurial activity and the 
lack of training for faculty members, post-docs, and graduate students
in 
starting new ventures or interacting with entrepreneurs. Universities
will 
also have to confront a set of issues related to ethics and social 
responsibility, as they more aggressively pursue technology
commercialization. 
Finally, we suggest some possible theoretical frameworks for additional
research. 

Subscribers to the journal can access this at:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/0300000006

A printed copy can also be purchased at the special price of Euro 30,
plus shipping
using the discount code ENTLIS at:

https://www.nowpublishers.com/bookorder.aspx?doi=0300000006&product=ENT


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