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McClure, Kevin R. – Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Although researchers have explored dimensions of academic capitalism among students and faculty members, knowledge of the roles of administrators at all levels is underdeveloped in the literature. This institutional case study of a public research-extensive university examines the roles of executive and managerial administrators in bringing a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Entrepreneurship, Social Systems, Administrator Role
Rooksby, Jacob H. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
American research universities frequently obtain and license patents to their faculty members' inventions. While university licensing is carefully tracked and thoroughly studied, little is known about university decisions to assertively litigate their patents through filing patent infringement lawsuits in federal court. Which universities…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Intellectual Property, Research Universities, Federal Courts
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Stone, Vathsala I.; Lockett, Michelle; Usiak, Douglas J.; Arthanat, Sajay – Assistive Technology Outcomes and Benefits, 2010
This paper presents methodology and findings from three product efficacy studies that verify the quality of life benefits resulting from prior research, development, and transfer activities. The paper then discusses key lessons learned with implications for product evaluation practice. The studies assessed the quality of three assistive technology…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Quality of Life, Technology Transfer, Program Effectiveness
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Lynskey, Michael J. – Industry and Higher Education, 2008
This paper presents the findings of an exploratory study into spin-out firms established during a five-year period at ten UK universities. The author suggests that merely counting the number of spin-outs formed reveals little about the overall efficiency of technology transfer efforts at universities. Instead, one has also to consider other…
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Transfer Policy, Entrepreneurship, Research and Development
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Poon, Patrick S.; Chan, Kan S. – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2007
In the modern knowledge economy, higher educational institutions are being required to deal with commercialising the results of their research, spinning out knowledge-based enterprises and facilitating technology transfer between their research centres and industrial firms. The universities are undergoing changes in institutional and…
Descriptors: Industry, Technology Transfer, Foreign Countries, Research Universities
Industrial Research Inst., New York, NY. – 1991
A study was done of the views of senior research managers in industry on the roles of business and universities in innovation, techical change, and competitiveness. This effort stemmed from an earlier set of roundtable discussions on university-industry research alliances and sought to add a stronger component of industrial views to an ongoing…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Higher Education, Industrial Education, Industry