Purpose – The aim of this article is to contribute to the debate on university‐industry knowledge transfer and on the changing organization of knowledge creation activities. Design/methodology/approach – By integrating several strands of analysis, a conceptual framework is developed that...

type="main" xml:lang="es" <title type="main">Resumen</title> <p>Este estudio examina las decisiones de las empresas en cuanto a colaborar con las universidades en su región, en comparación con las universidades no regionales, centrándose en el papel de los objetivos de colaboración. Mediante una encuesta a una muestra...</p>

This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the many ways in which universities contribute to economic development and growth. It demonstrates the causal interactions between universities’ activities and economic outcomes, and presents up-to-date quantitative and...

This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the many ways in which universities contribute to economic development and growth. It demonstrates the causal interactions between universities’ activities and economic outcomes, and presents up-to-date quantitative and qualitative...

This Handbook brings together 49 international specialists to address an issue of increasing importance for the world’s post-industrial economies; innovation as it relates to services.

This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyse the causes and effects of technological and structural change. It grafts the intuitions of the economics of complexity into the tradition of analysis based upon the Schumpeterian and...

We study two different governance modes of university–industry interactions: in the institutional mode, interactions are mediated by the university through its administrative structures (such as departments or dedicated units such as technology transfer offices), while in the personal...

This article develops a general framework to describe the changes in university IPR regulations in Europe and their effects on the patenting activities of universities and on knowledge transfer processes. Understanding the effects of changes in IPR regulations on academic patenting is a complex...