Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-02-17DOI: 10.1007/s10961-025-10187-w
Adams G Bailey, Breanna M Reingold, Joseph D Johnson, Alan C O'Connor
Proof of Concept Centers (PoCCs) are important mechanisms for supporting technology transfer and enabling the commercialization efforts of academic innovators. However, there is limited evidence on the success of PoCCs in supporting projects towards commercialization, especially in the life sciences. We examine how principal investigator (PI) and technology characteristics impact initial actions and commercialization strategies within a PoCC. Through a unique data set that tracks 275 biomedical technologies funded by the National Institutes of Health Centers for Accelerated Innovations (NCAI) and Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hubs (REACH), we find evidence of differing priorities and strategies based on characteristics of the Principal Investigator such as gender, commercialization experience, and title, as well as the type of biomedical technology. We also find empirical evidence that greater levels of PoCC support is associated with a higher frequency of licensing agreements. These findings contribute to a broader understanding of the role PoCCs have in promoting academic commercialization in the biomedical technology sector and insight into the determinants of varying trajectories of projects funded by PoCCs in pursuit of commercialization.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-05-31DOI: 10.1007/s10961-025-10230-w
Sumon Bhaumik, Nigel Driffield, Katiuscia Lavoratori, Meng Song, Priit Vahter
This paper delves into the pivotal role of institutions in facilitating knowledge spillovers, particularly in the context of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and knowledge transfer. While extant literature highlights the positive correlation between good institutional quality and knowledge transfer, this paper introduces a nuanced perspective. It argues for an inverted U-shaped relationship, suggesting that MNEs may exhibit reluctance in knowledge transfer to subsidiaries not only in environments with low institutional quality, as conventionally discussed, but also in those characterized by high institutional quality. In fact, there are beneficial implications of good institutions for domestic firms as well, enabling greater capacity to absorb knowledge and thereby emerge as competitors of MNEs. The paper demonstrates an inverted U-shaped relationship between spillovers, to capture knowledge transfer, and the quality of local institutions. This study provides valuable insights into the complex dynamics of knowledge spillovers, emphasizing the multifaceted influence of institutional environments on knowledge dissemination and economic development.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10961-025-10230-w.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1007/s10961-023-10043-9
David Bamford, Iain Reid, Paul Forrester, Benjamin Dehe, Jim Bamford, Marina Papalexi
Abstract Providing evidence of the impact of university–industry (U–I) partnerships is challenging. This empirical research contributes to this thought-provoking subject area by developing an impact assessment framework to assess the effect of collaboration between university and industry. This is examined through a multiple case study approach: 13 partnership schemes, each of two years duration, in manufacturing and healthcare. This study demonstrates that effective knowledge transfer from universities to enterprises is not only hypothetically feasible, but also realistically tangible and measurable. It explores how Business and Management Schools transfer knowledge and technology through external interventions and formal partnership schemes. Our findings show that impact and knowledge transfer can be evaluated, but requires active facilitation before, during and after the project, plus a level of openness and expert engagement within the partnerships. Additionally, our findings established that healthcare partnerships generated higher perceived levels of impact than manufacturing. This perhaps indicates that further work is necessary to resolve the issues limiting the productivity gains of manufacturing partnerships.
{"title":"An empirical investigation into UK university–industry collaboration: the development of an impact framework","authors":"David Bamford, Iain Reid, Paul Forrester, Benjamin Dehe, Jim Bamford, Marina Papalexi","doi":"10.1007/s10961-023-10043-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-10043-9","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Providing evidence of the impact of university–industry (U–I) partnerships is challenging. This empirical research contributes to this thought-provoking subject area by developing an impact assessment framework to assess the effect of collaboration between university and industry. This is examined through a multiple case study approach: 13 partnership schemes, each of two years duration, in manufacturing and healthcare. This study demonstrates that effective knowledge transfer from universities to enterprises is not only hypothetically feasible, but also realistically tangible and measurable. It explores how Business and Management Schools transfer knowledge and technology through external interventions and formal partnership schemes. Our findings show that impact and knowledge transfer can be evaluated, but requires active facilitation before, during and after the project, plus a level of openness and expert engagement within the partnerships. Additionally, our findings established that healthcare partnerships generated higher perceived levels of impact than manufacturing. This perhaps indicates that further work is necessary to resolve the issues limiting the productivity gains of manufacturing partnerships.","PeriodicalId":48228,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Technology Transfer","volume":"65 29","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136282660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-11DOI: 10.1007/s10961-023-10044-8
Dirk Dohse, Rajeev K. Goel, James W. Saunoris
{"title":"Supply chain constraints and research spending: an international investigation","authors":"Dirk Dohse, Rajeev K. Goel, James W. Saunoris","doi":"10.1007/s10961-023-10044-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-10044-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48228,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Technology Transfer","volume":"27 13","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135043015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1007/s10961-023-10040-y
Arturo Vega, Claudia Gabbioneta, Carlos Osorio, James Cunningham
Abstract What motivates academics to pursue technology and knowledge transfer has been a growing area of research with recent calls for a deeper understanding of this issue. Technology and knowledge transfer are being positioned by policymakers and universities as part of the wider research impact agenda. Against this background, the purpose of this paper is to explore at a micro level the motivational diversity among academics in pursuing research impact. Set in a business school context, our study uses self-determination theory and an interpretive approach. We focus on the main motivations to be an academic in terms of the core psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness, the consequent intrinsic or extrinsic motivations for research impact, and the attitudes towards institutional measures for this practice. We identified six research impact groups, practice-oriented researchers, business seekers, instrumentalists, compliers, theoreticians, and relationship facilitators . We also found some friction between the motivations to be an academic and for research impact.
{"title":"A micro-level study of research impact and motivational diversity","authors":"Arturo Vega, Claudia Gabbioneta, Carlos Osorio, James Cunningham","doi":"10.1007/s10961-023-10040-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-10040-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract What motivates academics to pursue technology and knowledge transfer has been a growing area of research with recent calls for a deeper understanding of this issue. Technology and knowledge transfer are being positioned by policymakers and universities as part of the wider research impact agenda. Against this background, the purpose of this paper is to explore at a micro level the motivational diversity among academics in pursuing research impact. Set in a business school context, our study uses self-determination theory and an interpretive approach. We focus on the main motivations to be an academic in terms of the core psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness, the consequent intrinsic or extrinsic motivations for research impact, and the attitudes towards institutional measures for this practice. We identified six research impact groups, practice-oriented researchers, business seekers, instrumentalists, compliers, theoreticians, and relationship facilitators . We also found some friction between the motivations to be an academic and for research impact.","PeriodicalId":48228,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Technology Transfer","volume":"324 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135475310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1007/s10961-023-10046-6
María García de Blanes Sebastián, José Ramón Sarmiento Guede, Alberto Azuara Grande, David Juárez-Varón
{"title":"Analysis of factors influencing attitude and intention to use electric vehicles for a sustainable future","authors":"María García de Blanes Sebastián, José Ramón Sarmiento Guede, Alberto Azuara Grande, David Juárez-Varón","doi":"10.1007/s10961-023-10046-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-10046-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48228,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Technology Transfer","volume":"495 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135637409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1007/s10961-023-10039-5
Andrew Watkins, Adam McCarthy, Claire Holland, Philip Shapira
Abstract The emergence and evolution of engineering biology, and its potential to address multiple global challenges is associated with the rise of biofoundries. These innovation intermediaries are facilities that employ advanced automation and computational analytics to accelerate engineering biology applications. Yet, for biofoundries to fully achieve their promise of generating applications that address grand societal challenges, they need to meet three key challenges: translation of research technology and its commercialization, attention to sustainability, and responsible innovation. Using web content analysis and interviews, this paper explores the functions and capabilities undertaken by existing public biofoundries, the extent to which they address these three challenges, and opportunities and models for enhancement. We also probe the roles undertaken by three other contrasting types of innovation intermediaries to identify practices and opportunities for integration and partnering with public biofoundries. We find that public biofoundries exhibit relatively strong capabilities for research translation, whereas efforts toward sustainability and responsibility are generally less prominent. For biofoundry enhancement, we propose an organisational model based on external partnering where public biofoundries are positioned as intermediaries within regional innovation systems. The framework put forward is reproducible and could be used in other contexts for assessing innovation intermediary organisational functions and capabilities toward meeting societal challenges.
{"title":"Public biofoundries as innovation intermediaries: the integration of translation, sustainability, and responsibility","authors":"Andrew Watkins, Adam McCarthy, Claire Holland, Philip Shapira","doi":"10.1007/s10961-023-10039-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-10039-5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The emergence and evolution of engineering biology, and its potential to address multiple global challenges is associated with the rise of biofoundries. These innovation intermediaries are facilities that employ advanced automation and computational analytics to accelerate engineering biology applications. Yet, for biofoundries to fully achieve their promise of generating applications that address grand societal challenges, they need to meet three key challenges: translation of research technology and its commercialization, attention to sustainability, and responsible innovation. Using web content analysis and interviews, this paper explores the functions and capabilities undertaken by existing public biofoundries, the extent to which they address these three challenges, and opportunities and models for enhancement. We also probe the roles undertaken by three other contrasting types of innovation intermediaries to identify practices and opportunities for integration and partnering with public biofoundries. We find that public biofoundries exhibit relatively strong capabilities for research translation, whereas efforts toward sustainability and responsibility are generally less prominent. For biofoundry enhancement, we propose an organisational model based on external partnering where public biofoundries are positioned as intermediaries within regional innovation systems. The framework put forward is reproducible and could be used in other contexts for assessing innovation intermediary organisational functions and capabilities toward meeting societal challenges.","PeriodicalId":48228,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Technology Transfer","volume":"2006 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-04DOI: 10.1007/s10961-023-10032-y
Xin Yu, Sid Suntrayuth, Elias G. Carayannis, Stavros Sindakis, Saloome Showkat
{"title":"Advancing industrial wastewater treatment through comprehensive evaluation and innovative technology: a G1-entropy improved TOPSIS model approach","authors":"Xin Yu, Sid Suntrayuth, Elias G. Carayannis, Stavros Sindakis, Saloome Showkat","doi":"10.1007/s10961-023-10032-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-10032-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48228,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Technology Transfer","volume":"30 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135774070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1007/s10961-023-10041-x
Isabel Soriano-Pinar, Eloísa Díaz-Garrido, Sara Bermejo-Olivas
{"title":"Digital transformation for a circular economy: insights from co-word analysis","authors":"Isabel Soriano-Pinar, Eloísa Díaz-Garrido, Sara Bermejo-Olivas","doi":"10.1007/s10961-023-10041-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-10041-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48228,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Technology Transfer","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136103108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-28DOI: 10.1007/s10961-023-10042-w
Juan Carlos Castillo, Nicholas S. Vonortas
{"title":"TFP, ICT and absorptive capacities: micro-level evidence from Colombia","authors":"Juan Carlos Castillo, Nicholas S. Vonortas","doi":"10.1007/s10961-023-10042-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-10042-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48228,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Technology Transfer","volume":"8 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136161051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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