Through studies of six universities in the US, Japan, and China, we have identified current challenges experienced by actors involved in commercialization of life science research, along with efforts being implemented to overcome those challenges. A number of challenges were found to be generic:...

Purpose: We address the question of whether differences are statistically significant in the rankings of universities. We propose methods measuring the statistical significance among different universities and illustrate the results by empirical data.Design/methodology/approach: Based on...