scholarly journals University satellite institutes as exogenous facilitators of technology transfer ecosystem development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Conlé ◽  
Henning Kroll ◽  
Cornelia Storz ◽  
Tobias ten Brink
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
Ecosystem Development ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Absorptive Capacities ◽  
Non Local ◽  
The Pearl River

AbstractUniversities can contribute to knowledge-based regional development not only in their home region but also in other regions. In a number of countries, universities have established university satellite institutes in additional (host) regions to promote research and technology transfer there. We investigate the role of university satellite institutes in the industrial development of regions, which, albeit not economically marginal, suffer from a weak knowledge infrastructure, limited absorptive capacities for external knowledge in the business sector and hence a low degree of attractiveness for non-local knowledge actors. Despite policy recommendations in favor of establishing satellite institutes, there has only been limited empirical research on this phenomenon, particularly concerning technology transfer ecosystem development. To fill this gap, we provide an exploratory case study of university satellite institutes in the Pearl River Delta of China’s Guangdong province. We show how such institutes can be successful in facilitating the development of their host region’s technology transfer ecosystems and demonstrate why they should be conceptually included in our existing understanding of third mission activities. Our research centers on the interplay of geographical proximity and non-spatial, organized proximity in the development of interregional knowledge bridges and entrepreneurial opportunities. We argue that the university’s geographical proximity is only successful if the satellite institute, by facilitating organized proximity, promotes the geographical proximity of further knowledge actors, hereby propelling ecosystem development.

Technology transfer models for knowledge-based regional development: New R&D institutes in Guangdong, China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Conlé ◽  
Wei Zhao ◽  
Tobias ten Brink
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Local Setting ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Transfer Models

Abstract China has long struggled to make science and technology useful for industry. One essential element in overcoming this problem is vigorous knowledge infrastructure development. This article focuses on the most salient outcomes of recent organization-building initiatives in Guangdong: the ‘New R&D Institutes’ (NRDIs). We employ a process tracing approach including a mix of methods to systematically study NRDIs, and we examine the ways in which these institutes extend, and improve upon, previous Chinese approaches to technology transfer. We observe a flexible approach that engages a wide range of intra-regional and extra-regional knowledge actors and allows for the emergence of a variety of technology transfer models—including models that are better adapted to the local setting than those discussed in the literature. The article contributes to fragmentary knowledge on the role of technology transfer in China and to the literature on innovation policy in peripheral manufacturing regions.

Knowledge Infrastructure

2010 ◽  
pp. 102-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujeeva Setunge ◽  
Arun Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Endogenous Development ◽  
Knowledge Assets ◽  
Technology Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Provision ◽  
Innovation And Technology

Urban infrastructure along the hard forms such as roads, electricity, water and sewers also includes the soft forms such as research, training, innovation and technology. Knowledge and creativity are keys to soft infrastructure and socioeconomic development. Many city administrations around the world adjust their endogenous development strategies increasingly by investing in soft infrastructure and aiming for a knowledge-based development. At this point, the mapping and management of knowledge assets of cities has become a critical issue for promoting creative urban regions. The chapter scrutinizes the relations between knowledge assets and urban infrastructures and examines the management models to improve soft infrastructure provision.

Openness values and regional innovation: a set-analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1211-1232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roel Rutten
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
European Regions ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
North West ◽  
Statistical Studies ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Relational Economic Geography ◽  
Better Than

AbstractStatistical studies evidence that openness values matter for regional innovation but not how they matter. A qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) study of 108 North–West European regions identifies four cross-case mechanisms that explain regional innovation: the diversity, cosmopolitan environment, technology transfer and creativity mechanisms. Only in technology transfer do openness values not play a role. This evidences that openness values connect diverse local and non-local social spaces to local and non-local physical places to unlock a larger potential for more dynamic innovation. QCA understands causality as configurational and identifies mechanisms rather than net effects, which answers how-questions better than statistical methods do. The focus on mechanisms highlights how innovation connects interactions between agents in social space to physical place, which makes an empirical contribution to the relational economic geography literature.

Technology transfer and industrial development in Taiwan

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsing -Chau Tseng ◽  
Iuan -Yuan Lu
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Industrial Development

scholarly journals Evaluating the Intellectual Capital of Technology Transfer and Learning Public Services

10.5772/56002 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Grimaldi ◽  
Musadaq Hanandi
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
National Agency ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Core Competences ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Transfer Unit

Since the rise of the knowledge-based economy, many worldwide companies have begun to deal with different frameworks to manage and evaluate the performance of intellectual capital, especially in the area of knowledge management services. This paper presents a novel conceptual model aiming to support management in evaluating and prioritizing their intellectual capital competitive core competences. Based on the analytic hierarchy process, the model analyses interdependences among intellectual capital elements and determines the impacts of core competences on organizational performance. To validate the model, it is empirically applied in the Technology Transfer Unit of the Italian national agency for new technologies, energy and economic development.

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