Introduction: What is open communication, and why is it a dilemma? -- The open communication dilemma in one-to-one communication -- Performance feedback and its effects -- Feedback provider and recipient characteristics -- Manager as feedback recipient : upward communication -- Solutions to the...

In the 1980s, the U.S. Congress enacted two landmark pieces of legislation designed to facilitate technology transfer from universities and federal laboratories to firms. The first law was the Bayh-Dole Act, which applied mainly to research universities. The second was the Stevenson-Wydler Act,...