Special Issue on University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer: Who Is Selling the Ivory Tower? Sources of Growth in University Licensing

Nber Working Paper Series Who Is Selling the Ivory Tower? Sources of Growth in University Licensing

Historically, commercial use of university research has been viewed in terms of spillovers. Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in technology transfer through licensing as universities attempt to appropriate the returns from faculty research. This change has prompted concerns regarding the source of this growth specifically, whether it suggests a change in the nature of university rese...

Special Issue on University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer: Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups

Special Issue on University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer: Equity and the Technology Transfer Strategies of American Research Universities

Maryann Feldman • Irwin Feller • Janet Bercovitz • Richard Burton Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 mary...

Entrepreneurship and University Technology Transfer

This paper argues that it is important to devote greater attention to the study of entrepreneurship in technology transfer in the light of greater government attention, the growth in the phenomenon, the need to identify how wealth can be created from spin-outs, changes in the cultures of universities and differences with technological entrepreneurship in general. The paper summarizes the contri...

Modeling of Capacity Reservation and Supplier Selection Based on Option Contract

    Capacity Reservation,   Option Contract,   Supplier Selection A key issue for manufacturing firms is planning for outsourced components. In this research, we have considered a manufacturer in a Make-to-Order production environment who has to outsource a special component from a set of suppliers. One selling season is considered and the manufacturer faces uncertain demand during the selling ...