This paper analyzes Canadian Government attempts to encourage and measure commercialization of university knowledge for socio-economic improvement. Universities are regarded as major, insufficiently exploited, repositories of knowledge. Here, paths by which knowledge can be transferred across institutional boundaries, and various input and output/outcome measures are identified. Available Canadian data are evaluated and a detailed quantitative and qualitative study of one institution is presented. Three key issues emerge: (1) current proxies focus on licensing and spin-off, and do not measure several important paths of knowledge flow; (2) most readily available proxies are derived from aggregate data and are inadequate to fully reflect the ...
Canadian firms invest considerably less in research and development as a proportion of GDP than in ...
The push to commercialize publicly funded, academy-driven scientific research has emerged as a signi...
Systems of information about higher education in Canada are in a mess. Substantively they are being ...
Abstract: The ongoing subordination of academic research to the needs of industry is a matter of gro...
This project examines the role of universities in transmitting knowledge in the forms of technology ...
Managing by performance indicators (PIs) is an important and controversial issue for many stake-hold...
Commercialization of university research is a contentious and prominent issue in tertiary education....
Universities require resources to support research, and often seek funds from the private sector. Gi...
The mandate of universities includes the pursuit of knowledge, the transmission of knowledge through...
Universities require resources to support research, and often seek funds from the private sector. Gi...
Th e push to commercialize publicly funded, academy-driven scientifi c research has emerged as a sig...
The push to commercialize publicly funded, academy-driven scientific research has emerged as a signi...
To a very large extent, the national and international reputation of major research universities dep...
This paper analyzes university-industry technology transfer (UITT) and innovation capabilities devel...
Companies spun-off from university laboratories that commercialize intellectual property are signifi...
Canadian firms invest considerably less in research and development as a proportion of GDP than in ...
The push to commercialize publicly funded, academy-driven scientific research has emerged as a signi...
Systems of information about higher education in Canada are in a mess. Substantively they are being ...
Abstract: The ongoing subordination of academic research to the needs of industry is a matter of gro...
This project examines the role of universities in transmitting knowledge in the forms of technology ...
Managing by performance indicators (PIs) is an important and controversial issue for many stake-hold...
Commercialization of university research is a contentious and prominent issue in tertiary education....
Universities require resources to support research, and often seek funds from the private sector. Gi...
The mandate of universities includes the pursuit of knowledge, the transmission of knowledge through...
Universities require resources to support research, and often seek funds from the private sector. Gi...
Th e push to commercialize publicly funded, academy-driven scientifi c research has emerged as a sig...
The push to commercialize publicly funded, academy-driven scientific research has emerged as a signi...
To a very large extent, the national and international reputation of major research universities dep...
This paper analyzes university-industry technology transfer (UITT) and innovation capabilities devel...
Companies spun-off from university laboratories that commercialize intellectual property are signifi...
Canadian firms invest considerably less in research and development as a proportion of GDP than in ...
The push to commercialize publicly funded, academy-driven scientific research has emerged as a signi...
Systems of information about higher education in Canada are in a mess. Substantively they are being ...