Creating a University Technology Commercialisation Programme : Confronting Conflicts Between Learning, Discovery, and Commercialisation Goals
Our knowledge-based society is pressing universities to transform from monastic scholarly enclaves into producers of new technologies and incubators of start-up firms. However, converting scientists’ curiosity-driven discoveries into commercially viable innovations has proven so difficult that observers liken the journey to crossing a ‘Valley of Death’. We conceptualize the challenges of commercializing university inventions in terms of three gaps: the technology discovery gap, the commercialization gap, and the venture launch gap. We chronicle the inception and evolution of a technology commercialization program at the University of Oregon, relating how the university confronted and dealt with the three gaps, and describing the intra-organizational partnerships developed to address them. We find that negotiating the gaps requires assimilation of a technology commercialization mission into the traditional academic missions of education and scientific discovery. To do this, universities must confront fundamental contradictions between learning, discovery, and commercialization
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2013
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Authors: | Meyer, Alan D. ; Aten, Kathryn ; Krause, Alan J. ; Metzger, Matthew L. ; Holloway, Samuel S. |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (20 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | In: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2011 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 2011 erstellt |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195315
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