scholarly journals Co-Evolution of the University Technology Transfer: Towards a Sustainability-Oriented Industry: Evidence from Italy

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Paniccia ◽  
Silvia Baiocco
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Future Research ◽  
University Technology Transfer ◽  
Triple Helix Model ◽  
Management Of Technology ◽  
University Technology ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
The University ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
University Industry

Industry is continuously evolving, reflecting changes in society. An important aspect of this evolution concerns how new digital technologies are used and their effects on innovation and sustainability. Thus, the relationship between university, industry, and government grows stronger, shifting the focus on technology transfer processes from university to industry, at local and national levels. To increase our understanding of how these processes take place, more theoretical and empirical research is required. This paper aims to respond to this call by examining the university technology transfer through a co-evolutionary approach. The study analyses the dynamics of the relationships at different organisational levels within universities able to create sustainability-oriented innovative university spin-offs and start-ups, through the Italian National Innovation Award case. The findings show that the creation of these spin-offs and start-ups are the result of effective multi-level co-evolutionary adaptations within universities, and among university, industry and government. The article contributes to the further understanding of the management of technology transfer by combining some elements from the literature about the co-evolution of social organisations and their environment with some elements from the Triple Helix model of innovation. Moreover, both theoretical and managerial implications emerge, together with suggestions for future research.

Dynamic capabilities, subnational environment, and university technology transfer

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changhong Yuan ◽  
Yang Li ◽  
Cristina O. Vlas ◽  
Mike W. Peng
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
University Technology Transfer ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
University Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities Perspective

University technology transfer allows universities to extract benefits from their research. We examine how universities can create and capture value from their technology creation and technology commercialization efforts by embracing a dynamic capabilities perspective. Our longitudinal analysis involves 829 universities and 3908 university-year observations in 30 subnational regions (provinces) in China during a 6-year period. Our findings reveal (1) that universities create more ideas and capture more licensing value through dynamic management and active orchestration of assets, (2) that a developed factor market accelerates value creation and commercialization, and (3) that a developed institutional environment at the subnational level stimulates value creation but inhibits value capture. These interesting findings justify a dynamic capabilities perspective of the university technology transfer process while opening avenues for future research.

scholarly journals University Innovation and the Professor's Privilege

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (7) ◽  
pp. 1860-1898 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans K. Hvide ◽  
Benjamin F. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Quality Measures ◽  
University Technology Transfer ◽  
National Policies ◽  
Comprehensive Data ◽  
University Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Percent Decline

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 university researchers previously enjoyed full rights to their innovations. Upon the reform, Norway moved toward the typical US model, where the university holds majority rights. Using comprehensive data on Norwegian workers, firms, and patents, we find a 50 percent decline in both entrepreneurship and patenting rates by university researchers after the reform. Quality measures for university start-ups and patents also decline. Applications to literature on university technology transfer, innovation incentives, and taxes and entrepreneurship are considered. (JEL I23, L26, M13, O31, O33, O34)

Priority Challenges of University Technology Transfer with Interpretative Structural Modeling and MICMAC Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (05) ◽  
pp. 2050038
Author(s):  
Renissa S. Quiñones ◽  
June Anne A. Caladcad ◽  
Hubert G. Quiñones ◽  
Charena J. Castro ◽  
Shirley Ann A. Caballes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Geographic Distance ◽  
Structural Modeling ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
University Technology Transfer ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Micmac Analysis ◽  
University Technology ◽  
The University

Translating university technology via the university–industry route faces an array of challenges. Subsequently, understanding the interrelationships of these challenges hopes to provide a better outlook on the complex nature of the university technology transfer (UTT) process. Such an agenda remains a gap in the domain literature. To advance this oversight, this study intends to identify the UTT challenges and determine their complex contextual relationships. The interpretative structural modeling, together with the MICMAC analysis, was sequentially adopted to derive the overarching structure of the challenges of UTT. A case study in a public university in the Philippines was conducted to carry out these objectives. Findings show that time constraints, knowledge being too theoretical, high costs of managing joint research projects, complex organizational structure, institutional bureaucracy, geographic distance, and lack of national benchmark are driving challenges that influence other challenges in impeding UTT in the representative Philippine university. These findings provide policy insights to key decision-makers and stakeholders on the success of technology transfers.

Licensing, Partnering, Strategic Alliances and University Relationships

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley Daniel Blakeslee
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Biotechnology Industry ◽  
University Research ◽  
University Technology Transfer ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Technology Transfer Offices ◽  
The University ◽  
University Industry

Abstract The biopharmaceutical industry has been undergoing change for a number of years and that change is accelerating.  Larger pharmaceutical companies are acquiring smaller ones, companies are merging, laboratories are being closed, and the number of scientists performing research in the pharmaceutical industry is declining.  Overall, commercial industry, including the biotechnology industry, is becoming more interested in the benefits of collaboration with research institutions.Universities are also changing their view of relationships with industry.  Shrinking federal budgets are causing universities to look at other sources of revenue, including collaborations with industry.  Federal and state governments are also looking closely at the benefits of sponsoring university research, and in particular are seeking to accelerate commercialization of university discoveries not only to obtain the benefit of invested research dollars, but also for economic development and job growth.  Universities, and in particular university technology transfer offices, must understand these changes and adapt to them. This paper discusses the university/industry relationships, and the particular issues important to universities which shape that interface. 

The university technology transfer revolution in Saudi Arabia

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 585-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Alshumaimri ◽  
Taylor Aldridge ◽  
David B. Audretsch
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
University Technology Transfer ◽  
University Technology ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Open Innovation with Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping for Modeling the Barriers of University Technology Transfer: A Philippine Scenario

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renissa Quiñones ◽  
June Anne Caladcad ◽  
Hubert Quiñones ◽  
Shirley Ann Caballes ◽  
Dharyll Prince Abellana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
University Technology Transfer ◽  
State University ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping ◽  
University Technology ◽  
The University

The University technology transfer (UTT) process is hindered by various barriers to achieving a successful translation of innovative technologies from universities to industries and other partners. Identifying these various barriers and understanding their interrelationships would provide a better understanding of the complex nature of the UTT process, which may be considered as inputs to crucial decision-making initiatives. This paper addresses this gap by holistically determining UTT barriers and their intertwined relationships. Using the Delphi method and fuzzy cognitive mapping, a case study in a state university in the Philippines was conducted to carry out this objective. The Delphi process extracts 24 relevant barriers of UTT, out of 46 barriers obtained from a comprehensive review of the extant literature. The results show that misalignment between research and commercialization objectives is the barrier that was influenced most by the other barriers. In contrast, high costs of managing joint research projects in terms of time and money and institutional bureaucracy have the highest out-degree measures or are the barriers that influence other barriers the most. These findings provide guidelines to various stakeholders and decision-makers in understanding the existence of barriers in the formulation of strategies and initiatives for a successful UTT process.

scholarly journals Models, Processes, and Roles of Universities in Technology Transfer Management: A Systematic Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Maresova ◽  
Ruzena Stemberkova ◽  
Oluwaseun Fadeyi
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Academic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Government Investment ◽  
Management Of Technology ◽  
Technology Transfer Offices ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The University ◽  
University Industry

Universities play pivotal roles when research findings are to be adopted commercially. Although these roles vary from one country to another, effective patenting and licensing procedures, as well as eventual commercialisation of scholarly inventions, reflect hard work on the part of the University mediating between the researcher and the industry through technology transfer offices (TTOs) in order to ensure that knowledge-developers take motivational and monetary credit for their findings. This paper details some existing models, processes, and roles taken up in some countries where sharing of intellectual property exists, and links it up with aspects of university–industry technology transfer, such as policies surrounding patenting, government investment and marketing, and the process of academic entrepreneurship, among others. 22 articles were found via a systematic review of literature and analysed with respect to four identified areas of focus: internal strategy, investment and market, academic entrepreneurship and policy. Based on models, processes, and roles in reviewed studies, our results indicate that new models for technology transfer mainly stem from the fact that there is no universally accepted model in the literature. Furthermore, management of technology transfer is mostly the responsibility of TTOs in most countries. While university TTOs act as intermediaries to protect the interest of the author/inventor, issues such as poor relationships between universities and industry, as well as funding, remain major challenges in many emerging economies. In contrast, researchers in western economies are mainly challenged by financial motivation and recognition within the academic domains.

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