Der Wechsel von Wissenschaftlern zwischen öffentlicher und privatwirtschaftlicher Forschung wird gemeinhin als innovationsfördernd angesehen. Zugleich gilt die Durchlässigkeit des deutschen Forschungssystems im internationalen Vergleich als niedrig. Woran liegt es, dass deutsche...

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....

What national policies are most efficient in promoting the commercialization of university-generated knowledge? We address this question by characterizing and evaluating the policy pursued in Sweden and the US, two countries that put a great deal of resources into university R&D, but follow very...

In this study, we compared the profile of German Transnational Patents with the patenting profiles of other countries from several different angles. Germany is a stronghold in international patenting in terms of the absolute number of filings (ranked the third only after the United States and...