A Dynamic Capability View on the Determinants of Superior Performance in University Technology Transfer Offices

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattia Bianchi ◽  
Davide Chiaroni ◽  
Federico Frattini ◽  
Tommaso Minola
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Dynamic Capability ◽  
University Technology Transfer ◽  
Technology Transfer Offices ◽  
University Technology

Information-based imitation of university commercialization strategies: The role of technology transfer office autonomy, age, and membership into an association

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Pitsakis ◽  
Claudio Giachetti
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
University Technology Transfer ◽  
Internal Source ◽  
Technology Transfer Office ◽  
Technology Transfer Offices ◽  
University Technology ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Successful Technology

We investigate whether university technology transfer offices, that is, divisions responsible for the commercialization of academic research, imitate their industry peers when designing their commercialization strategy. We borrow from information-based theories of imitation and the literature on academic entrepreneurship to argue that given a technology transfer office’s autonomy to strategize independently from its parent university, information from within and outside the technology transfer office affects its propensity to imitate the commercialization strategy of the “most successful peers,” that is, those with the largest live spinoff portfolio and greatest revenues from spinoffs in the industry. We contend that a technology transfer office’s experience, that is, a function of its age, represents a key internal source of information for the technology transfer office when deciding whether to imitate or not; we also consider the technology transfer office’s embeddedness in a network where the most successful peer is also a member as a key external source of information. From data on 86 British university technology transfer offices and their commercialization strategies between 1993 and 2007 that were drawn from both secondary sources and in-depth interviews with technology transfer office managers, we find that there is a negative relationship between technology transfer offices’ autonomy and their level of imitation of the most successful technology transfer office’s strategy, and that this relationship is moderated by the technology transfer offices’ age and by their membership into an association where the most successful technology transfer office is also a member.

scholarly journals University technology transfer offices: The search for identity to build legitimacy

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 421-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conor O’Kane ◽  
Vincent Mangematin ◽  
Will Geoghegan ◽  
Ciara Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
University Technology Transfer ◽  
Technology Transfer Offices ◽  
University Technology

scholarly journals Knowledge Transfer from Universities to Industry Through University Technology Transfer Offices

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asad Abbas ◽  
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Anders Avdic ◽  
Kathryn Chang Barker ◽  
Peng Xiaobao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
University Technology Transfer ◽  
Technology Transfer Offices ◽  
University Technology
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