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Direct linkPowers, Joshua B.; Campbell, Eric G. – Research in Higher Education, 2011
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of technology commercialization on researcher practice and productivity at U.S. universities. Using data drawn from licensing contract documents and databases of university-industry linkages and faculty research output, the study findings suggest that the common practice of licensing…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Finance, Certification, Researchers
Powers, Joshua B.; Campbell, Eric G. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2009
In 1907, Frederick Cottrell, professor of chemistry at the University of California-Berkeley and father of the modern academic patent, worried that if universities became too directly involved in patenting and licensing operations, their thirst for profits could lead to the erosion of the openness necessary for academic science to flourish. For…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Universities, School Business Relationship, Intellectual Property
Download full textPowers, Joshua B. – 2003
In recent years, considerable attention has been directed toward higher educations role as a driver of economic reform. Yet, surprisingly little is known about the processes and mechanisms by which academic innovations are successfully commercialized. The specific question is, what factors explain why some licensed innovations become bona fide…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Incentives
Powers, Joshua B. – Research in Higher Education, 2004
In recent years, universities have become increasingly entrepreneurial as evidenced by their rapid escalation into technology transfer, the process by which university-developed technologies are commercialized. Stimulated in part by a favorable policy environment for patenting and licensing as well as increased competition for limited resources,…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Financial Support, Technology Transfer, Universities
Commercializing Academic Research: Resource Effects on Performance of University Technology Transfer
Powers, Joshua B. – Journal of Higher Education, 2003
This study investigated factors that may explain differential performance with university technology transfer, the process of transforming research into marketable products. Utilizing multi-source data on 108 universities, a set of internal and external resources were found to be significant predictors of one or more of three technology transfer…
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Research Universities, Entrepreneurship, Research and Development
Powers, Joshua B. – 2000
This study investigated institutional resource factors that may explain differential performance with university technology transfer--the process by which university research is transformed into marketable products. Using multi-source data on 108 research universities, a set of internal resources (financial, physical, human capital, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Industry, Institutional Characteristics
