There has been an increasing focus on the strategic role of universities in stimulating innovation and economic growth, primarily though the transfer of technology. This paper interrogates some of the key aspects of much of the conventional wisdom concerning the transfer of technology and the...

This paper investigates whether acquisitions involving public high technology firms are best understood in terms of acquirers taking over firms with 'superior' innovation performance to access their assets, or acquiring firms with 'inferior' innovation performance to turn them around. Innovation...