Academic engagement and commercialisation: A review of the literature on university-industry relations

Research Policy

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 423-442

  Perkmann, Markus ^a   Tartari, Valentina ^k   McKelvey, Maureen ^b   Autio, Erkko ^a   Broström, Anders ^c   D'Este, Pablo ^d   Fini, Riccardo ^f   Geuna, Aldo ^e,l   Grimaldi, Rosa ^f   Hughes, Alan ^m   Krabel, Stefan ^h   Kitson, Michael ^g   Llerena, Patrick ⁱ   Lissoni, Franceso ^j   Salter, Ammon ^a   Sobrero, Maurizio ^f  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d INGENIO CSIC UPV Technical University of Valencia   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^j UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^k Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

^l BRICK   (Italy)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Academic consulting; Academic entrepreneurship; Collaborative research; Commercialisation; Technology transfer; University industry relations

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

ACADEMIC CONSULTING; ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP; COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH; COMMERCIALISATION; UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY RELATIONS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84874768004     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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