Building Technology Transfer within Research Universities

An Entrepreneurial Approach

Thomas J. Allen, Rory P. O'Shea

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780521876537
• eBook ISBN:
  9781139989367
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Entrepreneurship
• Index: Business

For the past number of years, academic entrepreneurship has become one of the most widely studied topics in the entrepreneurship literature. Yet, despite all the research that has been conducted to date, there has not been a systematic attempt to analyze critically the factors which lie behind successful business spin-offs from university research. In this book, a group of academic thought-leaders in the field of technology transfer examine a number of areas critical to the promotion of start-ups on campus. Through a series of case studies, they examine current policies, structures, program initiatives and practices of fourteen international universities to develop a theory of successful academic entrepreneurship, with the aim of helping other universities to enhance the quality of their university transfer programs. This book is a valuable resource for university research administrators, technology transfer office professionals, academic entrepreneurs, incubator management officials, R&D managers, venture capitalists, researchers, policymakers, and others involved in the commercialization of intellectual property.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The second academic revolution: The rise of the entrepreneurial university and impetuses to firm foundation
• 3 University-based entrepreneurship: A synthesis of the literature
• 4 Creating the MIT entrepreneurial ecosystem
• 5 Inventing the entrepreneurial university: Stanford and the co-evolution of Silicon Valley
• 6 The partnership between entrepreneurial science and entrepreneurial business: A study of integrated development at UCSD and San Diego’s high-tech economy
• 7 Knowledge for the world: A brief history of commercialization at Johns Hopkins University
• 8 From ivory tower to industrial promotion: The case of Yale University and the biotechnology cluster in New Haven
• 9 Fostering cross-campus entrepreneurship- Building technology transfer within UCD to create a start-up environment
• 10 Stimulating academic entrepreneurship and technology transfer: A study of Kings College London commercialization strategies
• 11 KU Leuven: Complementing inception dynamics with incubation practices
• 12 Toward a “global knowledge enterprise”: The entrepreneurial university model of the National University of Singapore
• 13 The path to the entrepreneurial university in China: A case study of Northeastern University, China
• 14 Public research organizations as a base for high-tech entrepreneurship in Europe: The case of IMEC and INRIA
• 15 Conclusion: Strategies for enhancement of academic entrepreneurship
• Index