Handbook of Technology Transfer

Edited by David B. Audretsch, Indiana University, US and the Department of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, Erik E. Lehmann, Professor of Management and Organization, University of Augsburg, Germany and Albert N. Link, Virginia Batte Phillips Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, US

Contents:

Introduction to the Handbook of Technology Transfer 1
David B. Audretsch, Erik E. Lehmann and Albert N. Link

PART I KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
1 The limited transferability of knowledge 11
Cristiano Antonelli
2 The impact of knowledge transfer on innovation: exploring the
cross-fertilization of basic and applied research 25
Dennis P. Leyden and Matthias Menter
3 The role of public finance in knowledge transfer and innovation 39
David B. Audretsch and Maksim Belitski

PART II INDIVIDUALS
4 Principal investigators and knowledge management:
a micro-foundational conceptual framework 57
James A. Cunningham, Manlio Del Giudice, Melita Nicotra,
Conor O’Kane and Marco Romano
5 Factors facilitating the inventing academics’ transition from
nascent entrepreneurs to business owners 75
Joao Ricardo Faria, Rajeev K. Goel and Devrim Göktepe-Hultén
6 The role of work-family initiatives in fostering technology
transfer: research opportunities on family and non-family SMEs 103
Katerina Vasilevska Mara Brumana and Tommaso Minola

PART III INSTITUTIONS
7 University-industry collaboration: drivers and barriers 124
Thomas Lauvås and Einar Rasmussen
8 Contextualizing technology transfer: a review of
university-industry transfer in the construction industry 138
Laís Bandeira Barros, Mirjam Knockaert and Laura Lecluyse
9 The role of Universities of Applied Sciences in technology
transfer: the case of Germany 159
Alexander Starnecker and Katharine Wirsching
10 The role of university in a time of crisis: learn from the past to
shape the future 175
Henry Etzkowitz, Chunyan Zhou and Rosa Caiazza

PART IV COUNTRIES
11 Academic entrepreneurship in Italy 197
Alice Civera, Michele Meoli and Silvio Vismara
12 Academic entrepreneurship: the performance and impacts of
academic spin-offs in Norway 216
Marius Tuft Mathisen and Einar Rasmussen
13 Universities’ ownership of intellectual property: focus on Canada 237
Shiri M. Breznitz, Samaa Kazerouni and Qiantao Zhang
14 Technology transfer and frugal social innovations: looking
inside an emerging economy 250
Claudia Yañez-Valdés and Maribel Guerrero

Index