Academic inventiveness and entrepreneurship: On the importance of start-up companies in commercializing academic patents

Journal of Technology Transfer

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 501-510

  Meyer, Martin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Academic entrepreneurship; Academic inventions; Finnish patents; University patents; University spin out companies

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP; ACADEMIC PATENTS; FINNISH; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SPIN-OUT COMPANIES; START-UP COMPANIES; UNIVERSITY PATENTS; UTILIZATION PATTERNS;

EDUCATION; INDUSTRY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 33745947930     PISSN: 08929912     EISSN: 15737047     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10961-006-0010-z     Document Type: Article

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