Explores the growing overlap of universities and industries in developing new technology for private gain, and how that blurring of boundaries impacts a university's traditional mission of teaching and research and the claim for public funding. The 14 studies, from a January 1996 workshop in...

The knowledge-based society depends on the production, distribution, and utilization of new knowledge.Established at the crossroads of research, education, and innovation, universities hold the key to this new society.Among the challenges that universities face today are an increasingly unstable...

Empirische Studien zum Wachstum akademischer Spin-offs -- The Impact of Network Capabilities and Entrepreneurial Orientation on University Spin-off Performance* -- Akademische Spin-offs -- On the Performance of Young Technology-Based Ventures -- Effective Learning within Entrepreneurial Networks...

What the future holds for the industrial cities of the past is a life and death question for many municipalities. Researchers, policy makers and ordinary citizens deal with issues related to developing appropriate strategy for renewing a declining industrial city. Searching the industrial...