scholarly journals I3P as university business incubator – a dual mission in technology transfer and start-up ecosystem development

2016 ◽  
pp. 21-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Cantamessa
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Ecosystem Development ◽  
Business Incubator ◽  
Start Up

Understanding a Business Incubator as a Start-Up Factory: A Value Chain Model Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. 1950025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Christian Brun
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Business Incubator ◽  
Business Incubation ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
A Value ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Development Processes

This study proposes a value chain model for business incubation. It describes both an incubated start-up’s development of its own product and business and the incubator’s development of the start-up from entrance to exit as a “product” of the incubator. The reported research is based on qualitative content analysis of 15 start-up cases in a Norwegian business incubator. The reported research enhances our theoretical understanding of start-up development processes within an incubator and provides a framework that will be useful for incubator management to guide incubatees through their venture creation process.

scholarly journals How academics can make (extra) money out of their science

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
William Bains
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Technology Transfer Office ◽  
Start Up

This paper analyses how UK academics can make money from their expertise, other than through earning their salary. Using statistics from the success rate and likely remuneration from recent examples, four options are discussed: licensing their intellectual property through their institution's technology transfer office, owning shares in a 'spin-out' company, personal consulting and writing books. The case of the 'average' academic who does not actively pursue any of these goals, the 'active' academic who pursues any one of them, and the top tier academic who is in the top 10 per cent of their profession worldwide are examined. In all cases, consulting is the most economically rewarding option. For the 'average' academic, being involved in a venture-funded start-up is the worst.

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.

scholarly journals Business incubators and green technology: The Gauteng Climate Innovation Centre, South Africa

Urbani izziv ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol Supplement (30) ◽  
pp. 212-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maruschka Gonsalves ◽  
Jayne M. Rogerson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Business Incubator ◽  
Green Technologies ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Learning Through Experience ◽  
Green Economies

Business incubators are a vehicle to assist the survival prospects of start-up enterprises, many of which fail in their early years of operation. One special form of business incubator is the Climate Innovation Centre (CIC) which is part of international debates around green economies and appropriate technologies for climatecompatible development. CICs are an intervention to build innovation sites to ameliorate climate change and a highly distinctive form of business incubator in which the explicit focus is upon supporting small business startups allied to the application of green technologies. Using a qualitative approach the article analyses the establishment and operations of the Gauteng Climate Innovation Centre in South Africa. The CICSA in its first five years of operations has been ‘learning through experience’ and introduced a number of changes since its launch in 2012, including an extension of the business incubation programme and an adjusted focus to South Africa’s climate change related ‘green’ issues around energy, water and waste. Although 5 years is too short for a conclusive evaluation of CIC operations the evidence from this research with South African clean-tech enterprises is largely positive and suggests that the assistance provided by the CIC has contributed towards enterprise development.

scholarly journals Grassroots Innovations to Techno-Entrepreneurship through GIAN – Technology Business Incubator in India: A Case Study of Nature Technocrats

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hemantkumar P. Bulsara ◽  
Shailesh Gandhi ◽  
P. D. Porey
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Network Technology ◽  
Business Firm ◽  
Business Incubator ◽  
Business Incubation ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Technology Innovations ◽  
Grassroots Innovations ◽  
Unique Mechanism

Entrepreneurship is the solution to solve a problem of unemployment in any economy. Normally, we think of Technology innovations, we think of Engineers from top Technology Institutions. But innovations may also come from Grassroots people. This paper gives the Case study of Nature Technocrats – small business firm of Arvindbhai who has been supported by GIAN (Grassroots Innovations Augmentation Network), Technology Business Incubator for Grassroots Innovations in India. In India, there are many Technology Business Incubation centers but approach of GIAN is unique as it supports Grassroots innovators. This paper has come out of a larger study with Research design: Multiple Embedded Descriptive Case Study. The process of GIAN with unique mechanism of commercializing the Grassroots innovations is described. The problems in this area are also described. This case study may inspire other agencies in India or other countries too for working in the area of Grassroots innovations to Techno-entrepreneurship. Keywords: Grassroots innovations; Technology innovations; Techno-Entrepreneurship; GIAN; Technology Transfer.

Entrepreneurship Education in an Entrepreneurial Community

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 475-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hyclak ◽  
Shima Barakat
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Venture Capitalists ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Impact Of Higher Education ◽  
The University

This paper examines the evolution of programmes of enterprise education and technology transfer at the University of Cambridge in response to the growth of the Cambridge Cluster and public policy programmes designed to enhance the economic impact of higher education institutions. The authors highlight the way education programmes developed by the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning uniquely reflect the needs of nascent high-tech entrepreneurs by using local entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angels and start-up support specialists as instructors; by gearing the curriculum to issues facing high-tech ventures; and by offering ‘extra-curricular’ programmes that fit the scheduling needs of the PhD students, post-docs and research staff who constitute the intended audience. This examination provides an interesting case study of how a mature high-tech cluster can shape university entrepreneurship programmes. It also illustrates how new educational and technology transfer programmes have pulled the university and its nascent high-tech entrepreneurs into a closer relationship with the dense network of firms and people who make up the Cambridge Cluster.

Practical and legal preparation for young companies seeking technology transfer

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Newiss ◽  
Audrey Horton
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Intellectual Property Protection ◽  
Biotechnology Company ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
Start Up

This paper looks at the basic law of intellectual property as it applies to a small biotechnology company or start-up. It focuses on the systems and attention to paperwork required so that the company can maximise its intellectual property protection.

Academic Research and Regional Innovation

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
Steven W. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Inductive Effect ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
The University ◽  
Indicators Of Success

According to a large body of research, academic R&D has an important inductive effect on industrial innovation. However, the extent to which the returns to university-induced innovation are captured locally remains poorly understood. This paper introduces and assesses technology transfer at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, in the context of the problems associated with appropriating the benefits of academic R&D for the regional economy. The large and growing number of university-related start-up companies in the region and the clustering of firms near the university are among the indicators of success. Areas of concern are also discussed. The paper concludes by suggesting lessons for regional planners and technology transfer managers.

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