Third-party providers as entrepreneurs boost technology platforms. Yet, despite increasing interest in technological platforms, existing research offers little predictive insight into how firms can identify individuals who are likely to become entrepreneurs. We take the strategic perspective of a platform owning company, asking how to pinpoint those individuals who transition into entrepreneurs...

The emerging global trends in intellectual property (IP) commercialization and intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement and harmonization such as technology globalization, "niching", and licensing strategies, the diffusion of IPR standards and the divergence of IPR enforcement practices, are components of an emerging view of the importance of intellectual capital in corporate and national...

This paper will examine whether national technology transfer centers (NTTCs) function as an effective policy instrument in promoting the commercialization of university research findings. On the basis of 7 sampled universities, we place our research focus on the role of NTTCs, the performance of NTTCs and the determinants of effectiveness of NTTCs. Academic publications, patents, technology tra...

Technology transactions, such as licensing and R&D based alliances, have been growing rapidly in recent years. Even as technology licensing has grown, so has patenting. Both trends foreshadow possibly profound changes in firms’ strategy. In this paper, we develop a simple structural model in which both patenting and licensing are jointly determined by factors such as patent effectiveness, the p...

This paper discusses the phenomenon of academic entrepreneurship and its significance to university education, societal development and economic development. It analyzes and presents academic entrepreneurship as a leadership process of creating value through acts of organizational creation, renewal or innovation within or outside the university that results in research and technology commercial...

submitted to Cashless Society Roundtable, April 2013, Dublin Barriers to Further Commercialization of NFC Pilots in Western Europe Tatjana Apanasevic PhD Student Wireless@KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Electrum 229, SE-16440, Kista, Sweden; [email protected]

EXCLUSIVITY IN LICENSING ALLIANCES: USING HOSTAGES TO SUPPORT TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION DEEPAK SOMAYA,* YOUNGJUN KIM and NICHOLAS S. VONORTAS 1 College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. 2 A.R. Sanchez, Jr. School of Business, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas, U.S.A. 3 Center for International Science and Technology Policy an...