"Research Triangle" refers to the geographic area defined by Duke University in Durham, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Within the Triangle is the Research Triangle Park, a well defined area of 6,900 acres within which there are over...

Universities are a key institution in the US innovation system and an important aspect of their involvement is the role they play in Private-Public Partnering activities. This study seeks to gain a better understanding of the performance of university-industry research partnerships using a...

This paper distinguishes entrepreneurial network effects from the firm effects and industry effects that have been the focus of much of the literature about the economics of technological change and the economics of industrial organization. A method of identifying entrepreneurial networks is...

Following the passage of the Celler-Kefauver Act in 1950, courts began applying Section 7 of the Clayton Act to conglomerate mergers. In recent years, however, conglomerate merger enforcement has been largely dormant. Yet during the same period when enforcement practices turned their focus away...

In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in public and private investment in university research parks (URPs). URPs are important as an infrastructural mechanism for the transfer of academic research findings, as a source of knowledge spillovers, and as a catalyst for national and...