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,...

We present quantitative and qualitative evidence (field research) on university technology transfer offices (TTOs). These offices negotiate licensing agreements with firms to commercialize university-based technologies. A stochastic frontier production function framework is used to assess the...

We present quantitative and qualitative evidence (field research) on university technology transfer offices (TTOs). These offices negotiate licensing agreements with firms to commercialize university-based technologies. A stochastic frontier production function framework is used to assess the...

American universities were criticized in the 1970s for not getting new technologies into the private sector more quickly. Through legislation over the years, this process has been expedited by removing legal barriers. This study is an analysis of the university-industry transfer (UITT) process...

Key organizational issues in promoting successfulknowledge transfers are investigated using an inductive, qualitative approach.Data were obtained from 55 structured interviews of 98 university/industrytechnology transfer (UITT) stakeholders associated with five U.S. researchuniversities. It was...