In Finland, universities have the explicit mandate to support the transformation of high-quality knowledge into …-called third mission. This report looks at how Finnish universities perform in the task. The results point at a clear lack of … several remedies: (1) the performance of universities in their third mission needs to be metered. (2) These metrics need to be …

-- commercialization of research ; university-industry collaboration ; motives for commercialization ; challenges of … commercialization ; innovation support services …

the Universities Act governing the Finnish higher education system in its entirety. It was originally initiated to provide … universities with more financial and operational flexibility and autonomy and, thus, with better premises to fulfil the three … enactment of the new University Inventions Act in early January 2007. The Act provided universities with the rights of ownership …

This report studies start-ups and entrepreneurship particularly in services. The report is largely based on a survey … entrepreneurship in services has grown the fastest and employs the most. Service and female entrepreneurship seem to be on the increase …

environment. Three virtually simultaneous changes are of special importance. The first is the on-going renewal of the Universities … different Finnish research universities, the study aims to map the experiences of researchers regarding the reform … commercialization of their research outputs, however. Such claims were largely rejected by the respondents. The pessimistic results …