Do Spin-Offs Make the Academics' Heads Spin?

Minerva

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 331-353

  Zomer, Arend H ^a   Jongbloed, Ben W A ^a   Enders, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Commercialisation; Impacts on knowledge production; Industry funding; Public research organisations (PROs); Research based spin off companies (RBSOs); Science industry interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956881856     PISSN: 00264695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11024-010-9154-y     Document Type: Article

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