Research expenditures, technology transfer activity, and university licensing revenue

Higher education institutions (HEI) performance results depends not only on successful innovative technology transfer (TT) activities and university-industry cooperation, but also on governance funding, distributed by the priority for certain research and development (R&D) fields. The purpose of this article is to propose a concept to assess the efficiency of R&D funding by sector of performance in European countries. The main goal of the paper is to propose a concept to assess the efficiency of R&D funding in European countries, provide insights, recommendations, and point out tendencies for the future improvement of European funding system for HEIs. Multicriteria ranking method COPRAS – an instrument for analysis and decision-making. The empirical research is based on Eurostat data for the period of 2005–2014. Expenditures on R&D gives the fluent explication of European R&D funding (investments) emphasizing the execution of innovation and TT activities at universities. The proposed assessment model allows comparing performance results and rank countries according the efficiency of research funding. Empirical results reveal that the comparatively higher efficiency of research expenditures is in the Northern European countries, Luxembourg and France. Latter tendency slowing to move forward and enhance performance results of HEIs, as well as countries’ economic growth.

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Functional-Based Search for Patent Technology Transfer

Volume 2: 32nd Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Parts A and B ◽

10.1115/detc2012-70833 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Davide Russo ◽

Tiziano Montecchi ◽

Ying Liu

Keyword(s):

Information Retrieval ◽

Technology Transfer ◽

Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

New Products ◽

Business Value ◽

Open Problems ◽

Patent Literature ◽

Patent Documents ◽

Technology Transfer Activity

Patent literature contains over 70 million patent documents, so the amount of information available to companies and the opportunity to derive business value and market new products from this collection is huge. However, presently an effective information extraction is a difficult task because patentees typically write using their own lexicon, style and strategy in describing their inventions. This paper presents a discussion about open problems and a way to overcome them by a new functional search based on Function-Behaviour-Physical effect-Structure ontology. This ontology is used for a technology transfer activity by patents, with the aim of making users aware of how technologies, not yet exploited in their own field, have already been patented in other domains and exactly for achieving their same desired goal. To reach this objective a multidisciplinary approach is proposed, combining design ontologies with information retrieval tools. A case study has been presented to demonstrate how the conceived framework is strategic to search for patents and automatically classify them according to the proposed ontology.

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Entrepreneurial Universities and Regional Development: Policy Origins, Progress, and the Future, with a Focus on Poland

Polish Political Science Review ◽

10.1515/ppsr-2015-0013 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 70-83 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Amanda Anthony

Keyword(s):

Technology Transfer ◽

Regional Development ◽

Development Policy ◽

Policy Recommendations ◽

University Entrepreneurship ◽

Regional Impacts ◽

Catch Up ◽

The University ◽

Regional Development Strategies ◽

Technology Transfer Activity

Abstract University entrepreneurship is an idea that has gained a significant amount of support globally in the last 30 years and is seen as promoting reinvention, revitalisation, and simply remuneration for the universities themselves and their regions at large. But as universities begin to ramp up their technology transfer activities and start to commercialise their research, it is important to consider the regional context and the regional impacts that this can have. Technology transfer is important, but to truly transform economic “catch-up” regions to future leading regions, it cannot be the only goal of university entrepreneurship. As a result, larger perspective and more government, business, and university collaboration is needed. Using Poland as a focus area, this paper will summarise the concept and development of the entrepreneurial university and the policies needed for success, and show that the technology transfer activity of the university should be considered just one element of regional development strategies. It concludes with policy recommendations that may be useful for Poland and other regions.

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