...-of-Concept Universities Public research organizations The transfer of technology from Public Research Organizations (PROs) [1] to the external environment, and more specifically, the instruments to facilitate this process have been the object of a growing and passionate debate in the past decades...

...Valentina Lazzarotti; Gloria Puliga; Raffaella Manzini; Salvatore Tallarico; Luisa Pellegrini; Mohammad H. Eslami; Muhammad Ismail; Harry Boer Purpose The study aims to test the success of university-industry (U-I) collaboration in terms of innovation process efficiency. Then, this study explores...

... exploratory purpose. Peter Milley is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: pmilley@uottawa.ca In Canada, as in many other countries, stakeholders want universities to make direct economic and social contributions and to make them at local, regional, national, and international levels...

... on the ARCA consortium (www.consorzioarca.it/index.php/it/), a University of Palermo incubator that, since 2005, has managed hundreds of start-up projects and created about 40 new companies. The ARCA consortium is composed of Sintesi (an association established in 1991 by the universities of Palermo...

... in medicine and life sciences. Design/methodology/approach The paper investigates new product ideas that emerge from hospital and university employees, and looks at the extent of interaction between clinical and scientific environments in the idea generation process. The paper utilizes data about all new...

...Manuel Fernández-Esquinas; Carmen Merchán-Hernández; Oihana Valmaseda-Andía Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of the interface organizations of a regional innovation system on the dynamics of knowledge transfer between universities and firms. Design/methodology...

..., evaluating, and exploiting new technological opportunities that require tacit knowledge. Thus, tight innovation networks that connect sources of new knowledge, such as universities and other research institutions, to firms speed the process of search and evaluation, advance the adoption of new knowledge...

...Frida Lind; Alexander Styhre; Lise Aaboen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore university‐industry collaboration in research centres. Design/methodology/approach The paper builds on an explorative study of three research centres at a technical university in Sweden, using in‐depth...

...Federica Rossi Purpose The aim of this article is to contribute to the debate on university‐industry knowledge transfer and on the changing organization of knowledge creation activities. Design/methodology/approach By integrating several strands of analysis, a conceptual framework is developed...

...Tommaso Buganza; Roberto Verganti Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the organizational aspects of an open innovation approach by focusing on the relationship between universities and firms as a vehicle for acquiring technological knowledge. It discusses in detail...

...Toke Bjerregaard Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the collaboration strategies employed by collaborating small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and university researchers for initiating and optimizing the process and outcome of R&D collaboration. Design/methodology...

...Simon Philbin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of university‐industry research collaboration through the development of a new process model. Design/methodology/approach A literature review was carried out on collaborative partnering and supporting factors...

...María Paz Salmador; Lawrence Dooley; David Kirk Purpose The paper aims to identify the requisite attributes and organisation to be displayed by a research university in order to engage successfully in collaborative research with industry partners. Design/methodology/approach The conceptual...

...Manuel H. Gübeli; David Doloreux Purpose The paper is concerned with spin‐off firms and the process by which a new firm is created and formed from a university. The objectives are to examine characteristics of firms generated by this process, and the intensity of the spin‐off firms' network...