tech transfer

This paper reviews the evidence on university-industry interactions and technology transfer, focusing in particular on the role of the Bayh-Dole Act in (allegedly) transforming this relationship. The author also examines recent research that considers the Act’s effects on the formation of new, knowledge-based firms that seek to exploit university inventions.

The author suggests that it may be illuminating to view one goal of the basic research endeavor as the production of a curiosity-driven demand function for basic research that can serve as a proxy for the socially optimal (but unknowable) demand function for unpredictable research.

Drawing on the loose coupling and organizational modularity literature, the authors discuss appropriate intra-university relationships between groups engaged in technology transfer and entrepreneurship education.

The report documents some of the significant discoveries and innovations made by Ohios academic researchers and highlights how the technology transfer offices have translated those innovations into companies, jobs, and economic growth.

This paper examines the role that trade plays in economic development through the channel of technology transfer, approximated by total factor productivity.

Highlights of the FY03 survey include: 15,510 invention disclosures were reported by 198 institutions, up 7.7 percent from FY02; 7,921 new U.S. patent applications were filed by 194 institutions, up 8.2 percent; and 3,933 U.S. patents issued in fiscal year 2003 reported by 195 institutions, up 12.3 percent

The author examines the welfare effects of a transfer of pollution abatement technology in a two-country model. In each country, one industry discharges pollution as a byproduct of output, and the sum of domestic and cross-border pollution decreases the productivity of the other industry.

The authors consider the managerial and policy implications of the rise of spin-offs at public research institutions, based on a knowledge-based view of the firm. This framework highlights the importance of knowledge in the creation and development of spin-offs.

This article analyzes a sample of contracts that includes transfers of technology to Spanish subsidiaries in 1991. First, know-how is more likely transmitted within multinationals than between unrelated firms, highlighting the key role of multinationals in the diffusion of tacit knowledge.

The European Union accomplished its biggest enlargement process in 2004 in terms of the number of countries, area, and population. This study focuses on the impact of enlargement, the resulting technology transfer on the grain sectors of the New Member States and the consequent welfare implications.