University to business technology transfer—UK and USA comparisons

Decter, Moira; Bennett, David; Leseure, Michel

doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2006.02.001

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“…Yet, these national innovation systems appear to have evolved into weak entities, with human capital remaining low and science and technology institutions, especially universities, not fully performing an enabling role (Bebbington and Thiele 1993;Bastos and Cooper 2005;Beddington and Farrington 2007;Metcalfe 2010). A multitude of challenges have been identified in the literature, covering a broad geography (Bercovitz and Feldman 2006;Anderson, Daim and Lavoie 2007;Decter, Bennett and Leseure 2007;Hervas-Oliver et al 2012;Ranga and Etzkowitz 2013). These relate to overcoming cultural/epistemic differences, defining accurately end-user needs, demonstrating the benefits of new technologies to potential end-users, providing 'knowhow' and taking advantage of government institutions and networks that facilitate dissemination and influence user acceptance.…”

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Intermediation for technology diffusion and user innovation in a developing rural economy: a social learning perspective

Theodorakopoulos

Bennett

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2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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Technology intermediaries are seen as potent vehicles for addressing perennial problems in transferring technology from university to industry in developed and developing countries.This paper examines what constitutes effective user-end intermediation in a low technology, developing economy context, which is an under-researched topic. The social learning in technological innovation (SLTI) framework is extended using situated learning theory in a longitudinal instrumental case study of an exemplar technology intermediation programme.The paper documents the role that academic-related research and advisory centres can play as intermediaries in brokering, facilitating and configuring technology, against the backdrop of a group of small-scale pisciculture businesses in a rural area of Colombia. In doing so, it demonstrates how technology intermediation activities can be optimised in the domestication and innofusion of technology amongst end-users. The design components featured in this instrumental case of intermediation can inform policy making and practice relating to technology transfer from university to rural industry. Future research on this subject should consider the intermediation components put forward, as well as the impact of such 2 interventions, in different countries and industrial sectors. Such research would allow for theoretical replication and help improve technology domestication and innofusion in different contexts, especially in less developed countries.Keywords -university-to-industry intermediation, regional development, technology transfer, innofusion, situated learning, rural industry. IntroductionRegional development policy in Latin America has been geared toward creating national systems framework is extended by using situated learning theory (Lave and Wenger 1989;Brown and Duguid 1991, 1998Wenger 1998Wenger , 2000Swan, Scarbrough and Robertson 2002) to create a potent analytical lens. The focus here is on the mechanism of a certain type of technology intermediation programmes, i.e. run by academic-related/third sector research and advisory centres, within a low technology/traditional industry sector in a developing economy setting.The level of analysis is a successful intervention programme undertaken by a regional thirdsector intermediary, bringing together academic, local government and pisciculture industry stakeholders. This particular programme was designed to address the lack of technology transfer to small pisciculture agribusinesses, which is deemed as an issue of strategic priority in Colombia, given the importance attached to the expansion of key rural industries (Cruz-Casalias, Medina-Robles and Velasco-Santamaria 2011).The paper is organised as follows. The second section delineates the theoretical background, explicating the constituent elements of situated learning theory used to extend

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Intermediation for technology diffusion and user innovation in a developing rural economy: a social learning perspective

Theodorakopoulos

Bennett

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2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…Collaboration to support co-innovation activities can be more or less intense, and also may be formal or informal. [6], [7], [8] In terms of time one can find short-term and long-term collaboration agreements. Short-term collaborations generally consist of on-demand problem solving with predefined outcomes.…”

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Innovation from Academia-Industry Symbiosis

Urze

Abreu

2015

Risks and Resilience of Collaborative Networks

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Abstract. Anchored on a systemic perspective of innovation and particularly on the triple helix model, which highlights the state, university and companies as central players, this paper aims to discuss the factors that enable or constrain the processes of innovation, using the system thinking approach to understand the academia-industry symbiosis. The paper's empirical section is based on a case study on Portugal's major highway management concessionaire. In order to ensure a "healthy" co-innovation environment, the archetype studied emphasizes the need to implement coordination mechanisms such as communication routines and metrics to monitor collaborative behavior in addition to the need to develop global goals that align the efforts of the partners.

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“…Venturing activity is informed and influenced by institutional norms and culture. The motivation for technology transfer, and the choice of transfer instrument, are driven by ecosystem norms and universitybased incentive structures (Decter et al, 2007;Henrekson and Rosenberg, 2001). …”

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“…Shifting from a scientific orientation to a more market-driven approach creates tensions for the individual, university and the venture. The deeply embedded culture within academic institutions preferentially focuses on research and publications at the expense of patent and commercialization activities and is, therefore, at odds with an entrepreneurial approach (Decter et al, 2007).…”

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Regenerative Medicine Translation:Cross-national analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem development

Johnson

Bock

2015

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In the field of regenerative medicine, new ventures face unformed markets and inconsistent industry practices. We study two university-centric regenerative medicine ecosystems to explore the characteristics of venturing activity and ecosystem development under irreducible uncertainty. The situational analysis reveals multi-level effects. At the micro-level, entrepreneurial coping strategies are significantly affected by cultural artifacts generated by the ecosystem university. At the macro-level, entrepreneurial ecosystems may develop along different paths, generating idiosyncratic contexts for venturing activity. A model of entrepreneurial ecosystem development is presented, with implications for theories of entrepreneurial behavior as well as policy practice in developing technology sectors.

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University to business technology transfer—UK and USA comparisons

Cited by 138 publications

References 8 publications

Intermediation for technology diffusion and user innovation in a developing rural economy: a social learning perspective

Intermediation for technology diffusion and user innovation in a developing rural economy: a social learning perspective

Innovation from Academia-Industry Symbiosis

Regenerative Medicine Translation:Cross-national analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem development

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