There has been a rapid rise in commercial knowledge transfers from universities to
practitioners or university–industry technology transfer (UITT), through licensing
agreements, research joint ventures, and start-ups. The purpose of this study was to analyze
the UITT process and its outcomes. Based on 98 structured interviews of key UITT
stakeholders (ie, university administrators, academic and industry scientists, business
managers, and entrepreneurs) at five research universities in two regions of the US, we …