In light of a history of legislative actions in the United States to encourage collaborative R&D, this book characterizes U.S. collaborative R&D through the eyes of the National Research Joint Venture Database. Facilitating a fresh statistical look at collaborative R&D as a purposive strategy in...

This book searches to understand the nature of the relationship, as well as the importance of the relationship, between sources of knowledge and entrepreneurial behavior. The conceptual foundation for our arguments is The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

A comprehensive and integrative overview of the current thinking on innovation, entrepreneurship, and technical change, written from an economics perspective, for academics, graduate, and advanced undergraduate students of Business Studies, Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Studies. -...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between an entrepreneur’s experience and education and his/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the crossroads between sources of knowledge and the...

As state support and federal research funding dwindle, universities are increasingly viewing their intellectual property portfolios as lucrative sources of potential revenue. Nearly all research universities now have a technology transfer office to manage their intellectual property, but many...