Inside or outside the IP system? Business creation in academia

Research Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1060-1069

  Fini, Riccardo ^a,b   Lacetera, Nicola ^b   Shane, Scott ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic entrepreneurship; Business creation; Knowledge transfer

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP; FACULTY MEMBERS; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; PATENTED INVENTION; TIME ALLOCATION;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 77955425692     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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