In this paper we illustrate the changes that the Italian university system underwent from the early 2000s till today, with a special focus on the transition to academic entrepreneurship. We describe these changes as part of more general and similar trends taking place in other European countries...

This paper investigates whether engagement in consulting activities has a significant impact on the research performance of academic scientists. The study relies on a sample of 2678 individual faculty, from five Spanish universities, who have been recipients of publicly funded grants or have...

In this paper, using a neo-institutional perspective, we model inter-temporal organisational responses applied to the diffusion and evolution of regulations and practices in university patenting activities. Our study is located in Italy, and it is based on the complete list of patent regulations...

The impact of internal intellectual propertyrights (IPR) regulations on Italian universities’ patenting activities isassessed. Internal IPR regulations respond to the increased levels of autonomythatuniversities were granted in the 1990s. The empirical analysisconsists of a complete set of 637...

Using a neo-institutional perspective, we analyse the complete set of 42 regulations issued by Italian universities to manage patenting activities, after being given more autonomy in several areas, from staff recruitment to students' curricula. In a few years, patenting gained legitimation...

Most of the literature on university patenting activity has focused on institutional and organizational change and on mechanisms to overcome market inefficiencies and spur academics to patent their research results. There is little evidence on the incentives for faculty members to get involved...

Over the last 20 years, the processes of knowledge transfer and commercialization of academic research through the creation of new research-based ventures (i.e., academic spin-offs) has gained momentum in Italy. The relevance of this phenomenon to policymakers and managers motivates the research...