Accounting for universities' impact: Using augmented data to measure academic engagement and commercialization by academic scientists

Research Evaluation

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 380-391

  Perkmann, Markus ^a   Fini, Riccardo ^a,b   Ross, Jan Michael ^a   Salter, Ammon ^c   Silvestri, Cleo ^a   Tartari, Valentina ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

academic engagement; academic entrepreneurship; commercialization; university industry relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947587048     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvv020     Document Type: Article

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