Purpose The objective of this research is to have an up-to-date and comprehensive
assessment of the current knowledge regarding the variables that encourage the …

Abstract Globally, 80% of wastewater, among which 28% came from industry, returned to the
ecosystem without treatment or reuse. The discharge of industrial wastewater poses public …

As digital transformation accelerates, generating demand for new digital products,
processes, and technologies, it is necessary to create consensus among all the actors …

National policies take varied approaches to encouraging university-based innovation. This
paper studies a natural experiment: the end of the “professor's privilege” in Norway, where …

Increasingly, universities have become conscious of their important role as centres of
knowledge generation and diffusion. Accordingly, they have put in place policies, methods …

Recently, there has been an increase in the university-industry cooperation to achieve
harmonious development under the paradigm of open innovation. The government is …

This paper employs the concept of 'Gold'(financial rewards),'Ribbon'(reputational/career
rewards) and 'Puzzle'(intrinsic satisfaction) to structure engineers' motivation for pursuing …

Publications, patents, standard-essential patents (SEPs), and standard contributions are
important indicators for the drivers in the technology development of 5G. However, current …

This article examines how the perceived quality of the service provided by technology
transfer offices influences researchers' likelihood to patent their research results. A novel …

As the important source of scientific and technological innovation in China, the improvement
of productivity from the patent commercialization in universities and research institutes is of …