TY - JOUR
T1 - Technology transfer offices as a nexus within the triple helix
T2 - The progression of the university's role
AU - Geoghegan, Will
AU - O'Kane, Conor
AU - Fitzgerald, Ciara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The prospect of increased revenue and spillovers has influenced the mission of the university to reflect an increasingly commercial orientation. This paper focuses on university commercialisation in three countries (Ireland, New Zealand and the USA), through 58 semi-structured interviews with technology transfer officers and a quantitative assessment of university patenting trajectories. Using interviews with technology transfer office executives and university patent applications as proxies for commercial orientation, the study uncovers explanations to the heterogeneous commercial orientation apparent in all three regions. Findings indicate that path dependency; university leadership; technology transfer office scale and connectivity are critical determinants of commercial orientation. The paper concludes by surmising how path dependency might strongly dictate the other determinants and outlines some implications for literature and policy development.
AB - The prospect of increased revenue and spillovers has influenced the mission of the university to reflect an increasingly commercial orientation. This paper focuses on university commercialisation in three countries (Ireland, New Zealand and the USA), through 58 semi-structured interviews with technology transfer officers and a quantitative assessment of university patenting trajectories. Using interviews with technology transfer office executives and university patent applications as proxies for commercial orientation, the study uncovers explanations to the heterogeneous commercial orientation apparent in all three regions. Findings indicate that path dependency; university leadership; technology transfer office scale and connectivity are critical determinants of commercial orientation. The paper concludes by surmising how path dependency might strongly dictate the other determinants and outlines some implications for literature and policy development.
KW - Technology transfer offices
KW - Triple helix
KW - University commercialisation
KW - University industry technology transfer
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U2 - 10.1504/IJTM.2015.069660
DO - 10.1504/IJTM.2015.069660
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84930519673
SN - 0267-5730
VL - 68
SP - 255
EP - 277
JO - International Journal of Technology Management
JF - International Journal of Technology Management
IS - 3-4
ER -