An Empirical Analysis of the Propensity of Academics to Engage in Informal University Technology Transfer

By Albert N. Link, Donald S. Siegel, Barry Bozeman. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Models and Methods of University Technology Transfer (2013, positive): “Link et al. (2007) define informal technology transfer mechanisms as facilitating the flow of technological knowledge through informal communication processes.”
Search patterns and absorptive capacity: Low- and high-technology sectors in European countries (2009, background): “…in their function as lead users typically genrate ideas and solutions that are tightly targeted on an actual pplication (von Hippel, 1988), there may be a much greater istance from application in case of knowledge transfers from scintific research institutes (Link et al., 2006; Siegel, 2004).”
International Scientist Mobility and the Locus of Knowledge and Technology Transfer (2011, background): “…with a focus on the scientists involved, the research institutions, the agents in technology commercialisation (e.g. transfer offices), or on the modes of transfer, such as formal and informal KTT (e.g., Schmoch et al., 2000; Siegel and Phan, 2005; Link et al., 2007; Rothaermel et al., 2007).”
Cooperation patterns of incubator firms and the impact of incubator specialization: Empirical evidence from Germany (2010, background): “Besides formal agreements, such as joint patenting, informal relationships between incubated firms and academic institutions and personnel also matter for interorganizational and inter-individual knowledge and resource transfer (Link et al., 2007).”
Conceptualizing the Regional Roles of Universities, Implications and Contradictions (2010, background): “Despite universities being compelled to commercialize their inventions, some fail to encourage the disclosure of research inventions, with many technologies “going out the back door” (Markman et al., 2006, cited in Link et al., 2007).”
Who is the academic entrepreneur? The role of graduate students in the development of university spinoffs (2016, background): “Other studies have similarly adopted a faculty-as-entrepreneur approach given their role as principal investigators on sponsored research projects, relatively uniform intellectual property guidelines for faculty who conduct federally-funded research,(2) as well as their academic rank and technical k”
Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family? (2017, neutral): “Focusing specifically on faculty at research universities in science and engineering disciplines, Link et al. (2007) employed a stratified sample (equal numbers of males and females) using data from the 2004–2005 National Science Foundation Survey of Academic Researchers to examine the relationship…”
Crossing the Rubicon: exploring the factors that shape academics' perceptions of the barriers to working with industry (2012, methodology): “In particular, we build upon survey items employed by D’Este and Patel (2007) and the Research Value mapping Program conducted at Georgia Tech (Bozeman and Gaughan, 2007; Link et al., 2007).”