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Technology transfer: Industry-funded academic inventions boost innovation

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  • Brian D. Wright

    (Brian D. Wright is professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.)

  • Kyriakos Drivas

    (Kyriakos Drivas is a postdoctoral research economist at the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, and a research fellow at the University of Piraeus, Greece.)

  • Zhen Lei

    (Zhen Lei is assistant professor of energy and environmental economics at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, USA.)

  • Stephen A. Merrill

    (Stephen A. Merrill directs the US National Academy of Sciences' Program on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in Washington DC, USA.)

Abstract

Brian D. Wright and colleagues present data challenging the assumption that corporate-funded academic research is less accessible and useful to others.

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  • Brian D. Wright & Kyriakos Drivas & Zhen Lei & Stephen A. Merrill, 2014. "Technology transfer: Industry-funded academic inventions boost innovation," Nature, Nature, vol. 507(7492), pages 297-299, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:507:y:2014:i:7492:d:10.1038_507297a
    DOI: 10.1038/507297a
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    1. Kyriakos Drivas & Athanasios T. Balafoutis & Stelios Rozakis, 2014. "Research Funding and Academic Output: The Case of Agricultural University of Athens," Working Papers 2014-5, Agricultural University of Athens, Department Of Agricultural Economics.
    2. Frank J. Rijnsoever & Laurens K. Hessels, 2021. "How academic researchers select collaborative research projects: a choice experiment," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 46(6), pages 1917-1948, December.
    3. Kim, Juram & Lee, Gyumin & Lee, Seungbin & Lee, Changyong, 2022. "Towards expert–machine collaborations for technology valuation: An interpretable machine learning approach," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 183(C).
    4. Nicolas Carayol & Valerio Sterzi, 2021. "The transfer and value of academic inventions when the TTO is one option," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(2), pages 338-367, May.
    5. Anders Gustafsson & Tohid Ghanbarpour, 2022. "Challenging the troubled status of the marketing discipline," AMS Review, Springer;Academy of Marketing Science, vol. 12(3), pages 184-187, December.
    6. Dolores Modic & Borut Lužar & Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi, 2023. "Structure of university licensing networks," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 128(2), pages 901-932, February.
    7. Modic, Dolores & Suklan, Jana, 2022. "Multidimensional experience and performance of highly skilled administrative staff: Evidence from a technology transfer office," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 51(10).

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