Private and public resource scarcity is a critical problem in emerging economies. Although technology transfer policy frameworks exist, innovation and entrepreneurial become complicated processes by the highest R&D opportunity-costs. It explains the emergence of frugal innovation that involves...

Universities are important contributors to national and regional economies. Since the enactment in the US in 1980 of the Bayh-Dole Act, which transferred the ownership of federally funded research to universities, a worldwide debate has been ongoing about the benefit of universities' ownership...

Academic entrepreneurship is an important mechanism for the transfer of scientific knowledge and technology into application in society. Specifically, the creation of academic spin-off firms have become a growing phenomenon being promoted by universities and policy initiatives across the globe....

The establishment of academic spinoffs is a multi-faceted phenomenon, involving individual-, institutional-, and contextual-level factors. In this manuscript, we review the literature on the motivation to establish academic spinoffs and link it to the regulatory and policy framework. We document...

German higher education institutions fulfill three missions: the education of students and academic staff, research, and the so-called "third mission", which refers to the transfer and impact of university outputs to the economy as well as society. In order to successfully fulfill these tasks,...

In this chapter, we take a business-related contextual perspective into the technology transfer literature, and focus specifically on understanding what we know and what is still to be explored in terms of technology transfer in the construction industry. We take the construction industry as a...

There are many factors that influence a company's innovation and technology transfer goals, among them, recent research has emphasized the role of the workforce and employees. Management, psychology, and economics literature have been dedicating a growing attention to the topic of "work-family...

Considering the sequential nature of nascent entrepreneurship and business ownership, this paper examines the propensities of academic entrepreneurs to be business owners. A theoretical model sets up the empirical analysis based on survey data from a large German public research institute....

Scientists in the principal investigator (PI) role are at the heart of knowledge creation and management within innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems. The original knowledge they create through knowledge discovery forms the basis for technology transfer and commercialisation activities....

Research on the role of public finance, knowledge transfer, and firm productivity in their ability to innovate responds to the rapidly growing interest in the subject. This study builds and estimates a theoretical model using 17,859 innovative firms in the United Kingdom to demonstrate the...