This data set is comprised of all initial public offerings filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from June 1996 through 2006, excluding spin-offs, mutual funds, REITs, and so-called small business IPOs

This data set is comprised of all initial public offerings filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from June 1996 through 2006, excluding spin-offs, mutual funds, REITs, and so-called small business IPOs

This paper examines whether university ownership of inventions made by its personnel best serves the widely held social goals of encouraging technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. Using a hand-collected census of technology-based university spin-offs from six universities, one of...

In 2006 China had become the fifth leading nation in terms of its share of the world's scientific publications. Today it is second only to the United States. This achievement has been accomplished in part by a conscientious effort by the government to improve the research performance of China's...