This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic … entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …

Institutions of higher education are considered as an important source of innovation. Consequently, big efforts are … factors affect the innovation and knowledge transfer activities of male and female academics. We show that Gender differences … position) affect such innovation transfer activities. While women generate fewer inventions than men, the fulltime employed …