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A case for non-globalization? The organisation of r&d in the wireless telecommunications industry

Di Minin, Alberto; Palmberg, Christopher - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

The offshoring of manufacturing has been the most visible ingredient of economic globalization in recent years. However, the rapid change in the global division of manufacturing has overshadowed another and perhaps even more significant phenomena namely the internationalization of the R&D and...

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Commercialization of academic research. A comparison between researchers in the U.S. and Finland

Nikulainen, Tuomo; Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

This paper aims to identify factors that relate to scientists’ propensity to make commercially significant scientific discoveries (inventions) and to describe how these inventions are commercialized. Based on a large survey of academics active in different fields of science at U.S....

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Patents and Technological Change - A Review with Focus on the FEPOCI Database

Nikulainen, Tuomo; Pajarinen, Mika; Palmberg, Christopher - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2005

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Transferring Science-based Technologies to Industry - Does Nanotechnology Make a Difference?

Palmberg, Christopher; Pajarinen, Mika; Nikulainen, Tuomo - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

Nanotechnology has been touted as a general purpose technology (GPT) and engine of growth for the 21th century, following in the footsteps of ICT. Nanotechnology is still in an early phase of development, it is scientist driven and thus largely exogenous to the economy at present. In Finland the...

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Making sense of TTO production function: University technology transfer offices as process catalysts, knowledge converters and impact amplifiers

Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi; Hermans, Raine - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

This inductive case study of 7 US university technology transfer offices (TTOs) examines the value added that TTOs contribute to university-industry technology transfer (UITT ). We therefore (i) characterize a set of central organizational TTO practices, (ii) describe how TTOs systemically...

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Modes, Challenges and Outcomes of Nanotechnology Transfer - A Comparative Analysis University and Company Researchers

Palmberg, Christopher - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

Nanotechnology has been proposed as the next general purpose technology and engine for growth for the 21th century. Increasing public R&D investments are foremost reflected in the growth of scientific publications, while nanotechnology still is in an uncertain phase of development with various...

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Towards Demand Based Innovation Policy? The Introduction of SHOKs as Innovation Policy Instrument

Nikulainen, Tuomo; Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

This paper aims to provide an overview of the recently introduced demand based innovation policy instrument in Finland … - the Strategic Centers for Science, Technology and Innovation (in Finnish - SHOKs). SHOKs are formed to support the … innovative activities of existing industries in Finland with emphasis on industrial renewal through innovation. The focus in this …

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