How intermediary organizations facilitate university–industry technology transfer: A proximity approach

Villani, Elisa; Rasmussen, Einar; Grimaldi, Rosa

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2016.06.004

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“…Klerkx, Hall and Leeuwis (2009) also say that an intermediary has an important role between the two worlds of industry and research, because they have different mindsets, expectations and time frames. In this regard, innovation intermediaries may act as translators by facilitating a situation that enhances knowledge transfer during the project improving the cognitive proximity of partners (Villani et al, 2017). At the British case, the Project Leader of Philips declared that the TTO helped him to understand information coming from the professors and the other way round, translating practical needs of the company to academic terms.…”

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“…Also, it could generate misleading implications for the practitioners who may need help in different stages of a R&D project, not only in commercialising the results. Nevertheless, if the literature is well advanced regarding the benefits of relationships between universities and industry for innovation (Guerrero et al, 2017;Scandura, 2016) and punctual activities performed by intermediaries (Agogué, Yström, & Le Masson, 2017;Villani, Rasmussen, & Grimaldi, 2017), it is less advanced in outlining the role of TTOs as intermediaries throughout the entire collaborative innovation project. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to identify the roles of TTOs throughout collaborative R&D projects and suggest some lessons for Brazilian TTOs based on the experience of the UK.…”

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Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects

Thomas

Vieira

Balestrin

2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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The literature about collaboration for innovation has reported fundamental activities performed by intermediaries. In this paper, universities' technology transfer offices (TTOs) are placed as intermediaries between academic research and the industry. Our study focuses on collaborative research and development (R&D) projects between universities and industry in order to understand the roles of TTOs throughout the whole duration of the project. The main aim of this paper is to identify the roles of TTOs throughout collaborative R&D projects and suggest some lessons for Brazilian TTOs based on the experience of the United Kingdom. Through qualitative case studies in the United Kingdom and Brazil, the analyses show that both TTOs performed critical activities for collaborative R&D projects. Similar activities at both TTOs were the management of partnerships in terms of negotiating contracts and the protection and licensing of intellectual property. Findings also show that the search for partners in the beginning of the project, the pacifier role of the TTO to help mutual understanding, and the active commercialisation of academic research to external partners happened only in the UK case, which may generate implications for TTOs in Brazil.

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Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects

Thomas

Vieira

Balestrin

2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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“…The predominant research theme on technology transfer mechanisms and TTOs that we found is not surprising as it forms the basis for all other strands of literature within technology transfer research (Villani, Rasmussen, & Grimaldi, 2016). In aggregating this category for the purposes of our study it proved challenging to condense different articles due to the growth of new terms such to describe technology transfer as 'knowledge transfer', 'technology transferences', etc.…”

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A review of qualitative case methods trends and themes used in technology transfer research

2016

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The focus of this paper is to review the qualitative case methods that have been used in technology transfer research over the last 20 years from 1996 to 2015. Qualitative case methods allow for more in-depth analyses and provide the opportunity to place research into a certain context due to the selection of e.g. specific sectors, institutions, countries, etc. Using a systematic literature review of five of the top journals in the field of technology transfer research, namely Journal of Technology Transfer, Research Policy, Science and Public Policy, R&D Management and Technovation, it yielded 107 articles using the search terms: "Technology Transfer" AND ("Case Study" OR "Case Method" OR "Qualitative"). Our findings found a clustering of themes using qualitative case methods around technology transfer mechanisms and TTOs, academic entrepreneurship, university-industry collaboration, commercialization as well as R&D and firm knowledge transfer. We also identify trends in case method technology transfer research with respect to authorship, location of papers, sectoral contexts, data collection, numbers of cases and data analysis software. We conclude our paper discussing the implications of trends and themes and suggest that researchers need to reflect on used terminology to describe qualitative case methods and their utilization. We conclude by postulating a to advance technology transfer researcher further there is a need for more plurality of data collection methods for qualitative case methods research.

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“…Similarly, Ranga and Etzkowitz (2013: 250) mention, in passing, 'intermediary and transfer organizations and networks-[forming] the innovation space-that are the breeding ground of new knowledge-based clusters.' It appears that the organisations, groups and networks which Etzkowitz (2002Etzkowitz ( , 2003a and Ranga and Etzkowitz (2013) have in mind as being interstitial and intermediary-in that they are '(intentionally) situated between the state, industry, and higher education' (Metcalfe 2010: 507)-will, at some crystallisation point of inter-helical relational saturation, spontaneously and organically 'spring into existence' for purposes of developing and promoting the cognitive, spatial, organisational and social innovation proximity (Bellgardt et al 2014;Cantù et al 2015;D'Este et al 2012;Villani et al 2016;Zhou 2014) required among the three stakeholder-helices. Accordingly, these organisations, groups and networks come to constitute the core 'agents whose task is to combine the industry-university-government structure together, thereby supporting the development of Triple Helix structures' (Suvinen et al 2010(Suvinen et al : 1367.…”

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“…Similarly, Metcalfe (2010: 504) has found the fully-integrated trilateral networks of the triple helix to be 'understudied, ' prompting her to critically explore and model 'the role of external organizations in the formation of AIG ties.' Notwithstanding the relatively small sample of directly applicable scholarship, more developed literatures tackling intermediation and intermediary organisation exist within many disciplines (Landry et al 2013;Todeva 2013)-in particular, for current purposes, in the related research fields of innovation and technology transfer intermediation (Boon et al 2011;Dalziel 2010;Dalziel and Parjanen 2012;Gassmann et al 2011;Håkanson et al 2011;Hoppe and Ozdenoren 2005;Howells 2006;Kivimaa 2014;Klerkx and Leeuwis 2008;Kodama 2008;Lichtenthaler and Ernst 2008;Pollard 2006;Sieg et al 2010;Shohet and Prevezer 1996;Stewart and Hyysalo 2008;Suvinen et al 2010;van der Meulen et al 2005;van Lente et al 2003;Villani et al 2016) and knowledge intermediation (Cantù et al 2015;Parker and Hine 2014;Schlierf and Meyer 2013;Wright et al 2008;Yusuf 2008). Even here, however, authors have pointed out that '[d]espite their obvious presence, … innovation intermediaries have received little attention in the theoretical intermediation literature' (Hoppe and Ozdenoren 2005: 484) so that 'relatively few systematic analyses of their functions' (Suvinen et al 2010(Suvinen et al : 1366 are available today (see also van der Meulen et al (2005: 2)).…”

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Intermediation in intermediation: triple helix innovation and intermediary legal organisation

Reich-Graefe

2016

Triple Helix

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Triple helix collaborations are evidence and example of larger 'post-postmodern' trends that have accelerated the convergence of once clearly established organisational dichotomies, in particular, market/hierarchy, private/public and forprofit/non-profit. The multiplex hybridity of triple helix collaborations creates unique challenges for the functional and, in particular, advance legal organisation and governance of their social welfare-oriented, quasi-entrepreneurial, quasi-regulatory innovation interactivity. Social innovation, resource valorisation and sustainability-constituting core normative underpinnings and objectives for triple helix models-similarly affect the design and efficiency of hybrid firms that functionally and legally domicile triple helix intermediation. In an effort to help promote the emergence of sui-generis best practices in the intermediation of 'innovation in innovation' (Etzkowitz, Stud Sci 42(3):293-337, 2003a) triple helix projects, this article focuses on two interrelated aspects of triple helix hybridity which are less developed in the current literatures: First, based on a well-documented case study of a failed research group-firm hybrid within the University of Helsinki, it examines an institutionalised supra-helical, fourth-party intermediation model for triple helix networks and distinguishes such theoretical model from mere inter-helical selfintermediation in trilateral university-industry-government collaborations. Second, it hypothesises the possible association of supra-helical, fourth-party triple helix intermediation in application with blended private/public, for-profit/non-profit legal entities, in particular, only recently introduced hybrid legal organisations in the UK, the USA, and Canada. The main thesis developed under such dual focus is that the unique legal organisational design and domicile for triple helix intermediation, i.e. what this article terms the supra-helical mode 3 substructure, critically matters-both, for purposes of institutionalising efficient decision-making and governance equilibria in the promotion and operation of real-world triple helix projects and for controlling the agency and social costs of such advanced triple helix collaborations. Reich-Graefe Triple Helix (2016) 3:10 DOI 10.1186/s40604-016-0041-x ResumenColaboraciones en la Triple Hélice son evidencia y ejemplo de tendencias más grandes "post-posmodernos" que han acelerado la convergencia de dicotomías tradicionales en organizaciones de todo tipo. En particular, el mercado/jerarquía, privado/público y organizaciones lucrativas/sin-fines-de-lucro. La hibridación múltiple de colaboraciones en la Triple Hélice crea desafíos únicos para el funcionamiento de organizaciones jurídicas y de gobierno, en particular organizaciones de carácter asistencial, cuasi-empresarial, y de innovación cuasi-regulada. La innovación social, la valorización de los recursos y la sostenibilidad constituyen fundamentos básicos y objetivos normativos para la Triple Hélice. De forma similar afectan al dis...

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How intermediary organizations facilitate university–industry technology transfer: A proximity approach

Cited by 259 publications

References 76 publications

Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects

Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects

A review of qualitative case methods trends and themes used in technology transfer research

Intermediation in intermediation: triple helix innovation and intermediary legal organisation

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