The Technology Transfer Challenge -- List of Contributors -- Part 1 -- Inventions and their commercial exploitation in German universities: Analyzing determinants among academic researchers -- Do startups benefit from incubation? An analysis of startups’ absorptive capacity -- Absorptive...

Introduction -- Public policies to foster academic spin-offs -- Types of spin-offs -- Processes at the institutional level : incubation models -- Processes at the firm level : phases and models of development -- Entrepreneurial teams in spin-offs -- Financial constraints and access to finance --...

"This book examines how technology transfer has operated in university-company projects undertaken in small to medium sized enterprises via the knowledge transfer partnership scheme. It adopts a qualitative case study approach, focusing on 19 different cases drawn from companies in the regions...

This important book is about the origins and diffusion of innovation, in theory and in practice. The practice draws on a variety of industries, from electronics to eyewear, from furniture to mechatronics, in a range of economies including Europe, the USA and China. The eminent contributors...

Analysing the USA and Japan from the late 19th century to the present day, the book provides an accessible synthesis of economics, management and econometrics to calculate the impact of various organizational innovations on economic growth. The author concludes that organizational innovations...