ABOUT THIS BOOK

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 are struggling to navigate this new world of university-industry partnerships. Given the substantial investment in academic research and millions of dollars potentially at stake, identifying best practices in university technology transfer and academic entrepreneurship is of paramount importance.

The Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship is the first definitive source to synthesize state-of-the-art research in this arena. Edited by three of the foremost experts in the field, the handbook presents evidence from entrepreneurs, administrators, regulators, and professors in numerous disciplines. Together they address the key managerial and policy implications through chapters on how to sustain successful research ventures, ways to stimulate academic entrepreneurship, maintain effective open innovation strategies, and improve the performance of university technology transfer offices.

A broad and ambitious work, the handbook offers comprehensive coverage for universities of all types, allowing them to confidently handle technology commercialization and further cultivate innovation.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Albert N. Link is professor of economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Donald S. Siegel is dean of the School of Business and professor of management at the University at Albany, SUNY. Mike Wright is professor of entrepreneurship and head of the Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School in London. He is also associate director of the Enterprise Research Center and director of the Center for Management Buyout Research.

REVIEWS

“This handbook, which is edited by three world-renowned academic experts on university technology transfer and academic entrepreneurship, provides valuable tools unavailable anywhere else. Each of the articles provides unique insights into the current state of the art in this field. This book will be of interest to both practitioners and academic scholars alike.”

— Martin Kenney, professor, University of California, Davis, and senior project director, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy

“An invaluable collection of insights from some of the greatest minds on the subject of tech transfer. This is an important, timely volume—the definitive resource for research university leaders and staff, whose institutions are stepping up and pushing academic entrepreneurship to ever greater heights in service of our citizenry.”

— Nancy L. Zimpher, chancellor, The State University of New York

"One of the most dramatic changes to universities in recent decades has been a much greater emphasis on their role in transferring and helping to exploit new technology for the purposes of innovation. In this book, three of the world’s leading experts on academic entrepreneurship have brought together the latest studies and insights from eminent scholars around the world. The findings represent essential reading for university managers and science policy makers as well as all those interested in innovation and entrepreneurship."

— Ben R. Martin, professor, University of Sussex

"This Handbook, edited by Link, Siegel, and Wright, paints a vivid, data-driven, historically underpinned, and yet thoroughly modern view of the complexities, challenges, and potential of creating commercial and societal value from early stage university research. This is a must read—and a critical reference tool—for technology transfer practitioners, policy experts, investors, entrepreneurs, and other key players in the innovation ecosystem."

— Mark Crowell, executive director of University of Virginia Innovation

“In the great University of Chicago Press tradition of foundational handbooks, the new Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship by Link, Siegel, and Wright outlines and defines the basic tools, mechanisms, and issues associated with university technology transfer and provides the reader with a solid academic and analytical platform from which to make planning and design decisions or assessments. In doing so, the editors provide a foundational understanding of this new late-twentieth- to early-twenty-first-century role and function of the research university. The Handbook outlines and defines the basic tools, mechanisms, and issues associated with university technology transfer and provides the reader with a solid academic and analytical platform from which to make planning and design decisions or assessments.”

— Michael M. Crow, president, Arizona State University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors’ Introduction
Albert N. Link, Donald S. Siegel, and Mike Wright

1          University Technology Transfer Offices, Licensing, and Start-Ups
            Donald S. Siegel and Mike Wright

2          Open Science and Open Innovation: Sourcing Knowledge From Universities
            Markus Perkmann and Joel West

3          Accountability, Government Rights, and the Public Interest: A Thirty-Year Retrospective
            Arti Rai and Bhaven Sampat

4          An Entrepreneur’s Guide to the University
            Fiona Murray and Julian Kolev

5          Challenges in University Technology Transfer and the Promising Role of Entrepreneurship Education
            Andrew Nelson and Thomas Byers

6          Research, Science, and Technology Parks: Vehicles for Technology Transfer
            Albert N. Link and John T. Scott

7          University Patenting in Europe: Does Faculty Ownership of Intellectual Property Impede University Technology Transfer?
            David Audretsch and Devrim Göktepe-Hultén

8          The Transition toward Entrepreneurial Universities: An Assessment of Academic Entrepreneurship in Italy
            Nicola Baldini, Riccardo Fini, and Rosa Grimaldi

9          Northeastern University: A Study of Technology Transfer and the Academic Entrepreneur
            Tucker J. Marion, Denise Dunlap, and John H. Friar

List of Contributors

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