Universities are coming under increasing pressure to produce impact that contributes to socio-economic development. Previous studies have focused on university technology transfer (UTT) mechanisms that lead to the commercialisation of intellectual property. We find that off-late, the legitimacy...

Over the past ten years, Russia has seen a shift in higher education from an organizationally homogeneous Soviet system to a heterogeneous collection of educational institutions. This has led to a need for universities to become innovative in their educational and scientific development in order...

The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which permitted institutions receiving government research funds to patent their inventions, has prompted U.S. firms to rely increasingly on outside—and particularly university—invention.The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of various licensing modes...

Academic spin-offs are one way in which employability of university graduates is reflected. Using the ZEW spinoff-survey, this paper studies empirically the impact of human capital on the success of academic spinoffs founding in knowledge and technology intensive sectors. The focus is thereby on...

This paper investigates how the encouragement of entrepreneurship within university research labs relates with research activities, research outputs, and early doctorate careers. Utilizing a panel survey of 6,840 science & engineering doctoral students at 39 R1 research universities, this study...

The university-spin off company is a specific but rather effective tool for the direct transfer of knowledge and new technology from academia into business. However, this seems to be still a not very common phenomenon in many European countries. The paper aims to compare the characteristics of...