<Para ID="Par1">US universities are leading the way in technology commercialization and licensing. This paper discusses the practice of licensing at the US universities, as well as the main directions and tasks of technology commercialization and licensing at the University of Maryland. Universities and...</para>

The purpose of this paper is to develop a classification scheme for the knowledge economy and society. By using Mode 3 and the quadruple helix theories, this paper models enterprise instances of networking among academia, government, industry, and civil society, all of whom are actors in the...

Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth is the key goal of several EU initiatives, strategies and programmes in the short, medium and long term and at the regional, national and pan-European levels. In this paper, we attempt to explore, explain and enact the conceptual as well as practical...

Organizations are open systems operating under conditions of substantial turbulence, risk (known unknowns), and uncertainty (unknown unknowns) and seeking to balance stability and coherence with flexibility and change in pursuit of higher levels of efficacy and routine excellence. In addition,...

Epidemiology is an interdisciplinary science with significant contributions to other academic disciplines. Theoretical tools from epidemiology have been used for the study of the rate and extent of propagation of computer virus infections and of the processes that determine how social networks...

In today’s globalizing and hypercompetitive marketplace, knowledge, and learning are the only capabilities that can provide sustained competitive advantage. “Knowledge” is the content of learning and a firm gains competitive superiority either by knowing something that its competitors do...

This paper details a journey of perception, change, leverage, and serendipitous discovery through emerging technologies and learning. Emerging technologies such as mobile technologies and “Smart-phones” have the potential to change the way business executives communicate, interact, learn,...

This paper addresses a complex problem of finding optimal or suboptimal strategies and business decisions of (1) entrepreneurs, inventors, innovators, and other “economic actors” who are engaged, or want and can be engaged, in innovation activities, and (2) policymakers who want to secure...