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The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....
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of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …
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The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and … stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields, and the extent to which tacit knowledge in all fields flows between … patenting. The data provide further support for the cumulative advantage model of knowledge production, and for ongoing efforts …
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Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New … opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally excludable and appropriable. Team production allows more knowledge … capture of tacit, complex discoveries by firm scientists. A robust indicator of a firm's tacit knowledge capture (and strong …
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relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …
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development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping … processes involving: (1) the production of scientific and technological knowledge, (2) the translation of that knowledge into …--that is, the translation of scientific knowledge into working prototypes. Our results show that "clean" energy technologies …
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The 'quality' of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality … is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share …
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innovation in a socially desirable substitute. Evolutionary theory emphasizes the possibility of innovation waves associated with … products. It does appear, however, that dominant designs did have substantial positive innovation effects. More specifically … innovation effects at the firm level than among individual inventors …
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We follow the careers 1981-2004 of 5401 star scientists listed in ISI HighlyCitedSM as most highly cited by their peers. Their number in a US region or a top-25 science and technology (S&T) country significantly increases the probability of firm entry in the S&T field in which they are working....
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agenda to integrate major research streams treating innovation as an object of economic analysis into our standard models … outcome. The totality of possible outcomes drives the national innovation system and the returns to a particular successful … required to motivate investment attempting to turn them into an innovation. The alternative to a valuable proprietary …
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