Despite the wealth of academic studies that analyze different policy measures and initiatives
implemented by national or regional governments to support knowledge transfer from …

This paper explains how research and development (R&D) collaborations impact process
innovation; given the differences in innovation mechanisms, prior insights from studies of …

The paper surveys recent empirical research on academic patenting in Europe, with
particular emphasis on efforts to quantify the relevance of the phenomenon on the basis of …

We examine engagement in commercial activities (consulting, patenting, and founding)
among more than 2200 German and UK life scientists. We test hypotheses that include …

This article develops a general framework to describe the changes in university IPR
regulations in Europe and their effects on the patenting activities of universities and on …

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 …

Existing literature has confined university technology transfer almost exclusively to formal
mechanisms, like patents, licenses or royalty agreements. Relatively little is known about …

Literature has identified formal and informal channels in university knowledge and
technology transfer (KTT). While formal KTT typically involves a legal contract on a patent or …

Research summary In this article, we analyze the impact of academic incubators on the
quality of innovations produced by US research‐intensive academic institutions. We show …

The scientific problem of this study is the analysis of the portfolio of outputs by public
research labs in the presence of hybrid funding scheme based on public and market …