This paper outlines the many challenges that confront efforts to commercialize university technologies via spinouts or startups, and it discusses the role of entrepreneurship education in relation to these challenges. We begin by considering the role of startups vis‐à‐vis other mechanisms...

As state support and federal research funding dwindle, universities are increasingly viewing their intellectual property portfolios as lucrative sources of potential revenue. Nearly all research universities now have a technology transfer office to manage their intellectual property, but many...

Collaborations between universities and firms are of growing interest to scholars and practitioners alike, many of whom see these relationships as key to knowledge diffusion. While the literature on university-firm collaborations has made a number of contributions, however, it has not engaged in...