Building Technology Transfer within Research Universities
An Entrepreneurial Approach

Academic thought-leaders in the field of technology transfer analyze critically the factors behind success-oriented entrepreneurial start-up cultures on university campuses.

Thomas J. Allen (Edited by), Rory P. O'Shea (Edited by)

9780521876537, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 September 2014

414 pages, 32 b/w illus. 42 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.75 kg

'While technology transfer from the university to industry is critical to economic growth and competitiveness, our commensurate understanding thereof is quite limited. Using an entrepreneurial lens, Allen and O'Shea [have] edited an important volume that opens the black box of technology transfer by studying leading research institutions across the globe. This book is a must-read for any policy maker, university administrator, academic, and student interested in technology transfer, innovation, and economic growth.' Frank T. Rothaermel, Deedy Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

For the past number of years, academic entrepreneurship has become one of the most widely studied topics in the entrepreneurship literature. Yet, despite all the research that has been conducted to date, there has not been a systematic attempt to analyze critically the factors which lie behind successful business spin-offs from university research. In this book, a group of academic thought-leaders in the field of technology transfer examine a number of areas critical to the promotion of start-ups on campus. Through a series of case studies, they examine current policies, structures, program initiatives and practices of fourteen international universities to develop a theory of successful academic entrepreneurship, with the aim of helping other universities to enhance the quality of their university transfer programs. This book is a valuable resource for university research administrators, technology transfer office professionals, academic entrepreneurs, incubator management officials, R&D managers, venture capitalists, researchers, policymakers, and others involved in the commercialization of intellectual property.

Foreword 1 Edward B. Roberts
Foreword 2 Donald Siegel
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction Thomas J. Allen and Rory O'Shea
2. The second academic revolution: the rise of the entrepreneurial university and impetuses to firm foundation Henry Etzkowitz
3. University-based entrepreneurship: a literature review Rory O'Shea, Ciara Fitzgerald, Harveen Chugh and Thomas J. Allen
4. Creating the entrepreneurial university: an analysis of the development of the MIT entrepreneurial ecosystem Rory O'Shea, Elliot Fishman and Thomas J. Allen
5. Inventing the entrepreneurial university: Stanford and the co-evolution of Silicon Valley Timothy Lenoir
6. The partnership between entrepreneurial science and entrepreneurial business: a study of integrated development at UCSD and San Diego's high-tech economy Mary Walshok and Carolyn Lee
7. Knowledge for the world: a brief history of commercialization at Johns Hopkins University Maryann Feldman, Pierre Desrochers and Janet Bercovitz
8. From ivory tower to industrial promotion: the case of Yale University and the biotechnology cluster in New Haven Shiri Breznitz
9. Fostering cross-campus entrepreneurship - building technology transfer within UCD to create a start-up environment Colm O'Gorman and Frank Roche
10. Stimulating academic entrepreneurship and technology transfer: a study of King's College London commercialization strategies Mike Wright and Igor Filatotchev
11. KU Leuven: complementing inception dynamics with incubation practices Petra Andries, Bart Van Looy and Koenraad Debackere
12. Toward a 'Global Knowledge Enterprise': the entrepreneurial model of the national university of Singapore Poh-Kam Wong, Yuen-Ping Ho and Annette Singh
13. The path to the entrepreneurial university in China: a case study of Northeastern University, China Chunyan Zhou
14. Public research organizations as a base for high-tech entrepreneurship in Europe: the case of IMEC and INRIA Philippe Mustar, Mirjam Knockaert and Bart Clarysse
15. Conclusion: strategies for enhancement of academic entrepreneurship Rory O'Shea and Thomas J. Allen
Index.

Subject Areas: Entrepreneurship [KJH], Business & management [KJ], Economics of industrial organisation [KCD]