Determines whether faculty members engaged inpatenting activity publish less than their non-inventor colleagues and examineswhether inventors' publications differ from those of non-inventors. Data from adetailed analysis of the publication and patenting activities of facultymembers at the...

The emergence of knowledge-based societies over the past decades has spurred research on the specific role of universities in innovation systems. The notion of academic entrepreneurship has gained acceptance among communities of researchers, practitioners and policy makers (Etzkowitz et al.,...

This paper explores how university-based research is utilised via user driven competence centres. Those centres are truly “Triple Helix born” since they bring together academic and business research(ers) in structures co-funded with public money with the explicit mission engage in user...