To what extent is academic entrepreneurship taken for granted within research universities?

Higher Education Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-15

  Goldstein, Harvey A ^a  

^a MODUL UNIVERSITY VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Academic entrepreneurship; Commercialization; Open science; Research universities; Technology transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 76949086305     PISSN: 09528733     EISSN: 17403863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/hep.2009.16     Document Type: Article

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