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Models of university technology transfer: analyses and policies

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Recent data on European countries show that innovation leaders perform better than economies with low levels of innovation investment and institutions that do not favor knowledge and technology transfer activities. This result confirms that to achieve a high level of performance, countries need a balanced innovation system performing well across all dimensions. More interestingly, the two most important indicators that have been driving increases in performance include new doctoral graduates and international scientific co-publications, that is, two channels of knowledge transfer from universities to firms. This special issue of the Journal of Technology Transfer is dedicated to the discussion of models of university technology transfer, mostly from a European perspective.

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  1. Carayannis and Grigoroudis (2014) present an up-to-date methodological framework for studying the dynamic linkage among innovation, productivity, and competitiveness and explore the implications for policy and practice.

  2. Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Finland are Innovation leaders, while Latvia, Bulgaria and Romania are Modest innovators. The whole list of EU countries listed according to their degree of innovation can be found in European Commission 2015), pp. 11–14.

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    Giorgio Calcagnini & Ilario Favaretto

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Calcagnini, G., Favaretto, I. Models of university technology transfer: analyses and policies. J Technol Transf 41, 655–660 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-015-9427-6

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