Product Description: In recent years, the pace of technological growthfrom the very first stages of research and development to full-scale industrial implementationhas quickened at an exponential rate. To better keep pace with rapidly-changing market demands, the gap between university research incubators and public-sector start-up companies has undergone a marked contraction...read more

Product Description: In the ever changing scientific word, Academic entrepreneurship has emerged as a new and growing field. Referring to the creation and management of an environment for active support of knowledge exploitation and transfer, Academic entrepreneurship aims to encourage entrepreneurial behavior in the academic community...read more

Product Description: Successful technology commercialization requires the integration of multiple perspectives and collaboration of experts from very different backgrounds. More often than not, key individuals in the process reside in different organizational units--each with their own mission, agendas, and cultures...read more

Product Description: The importance of international technology transfer for economic development can hardly be overstated. But the wide range of interests among developed and developing countries has long been the cause of enormous political obstacles to the conclusion of efficient international agreements dealing with technology transfers...read more

Product Description: Edwin Mansfield was a research pioneer into the economics of R&D and technological change. As appreciation and remembrance for his scholarly contributions, eminent scholars have contributed original papers for this edited volume. The authors have followed the “Mansfieldian” approach of emphasizing economic insight and intuition over mathematical rigor and as a result are very accessible...read more

Product Description: Organizational innovations have taken second place to technical innovations in explaining sectoral and economic growth. This work redresses this imbalance by showing the long-run importance of organizational innovations, such as the just-in-time practice and lean production systems, in economic growth and development...read more

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This unique book - informed by ten years' research - focuses on intellectual property and charts the global transition towards intellectual capitalism with technology-based corporations as prime movers. The book gives a comprehensive overview of the history and fundamentals of intellectual property as well as a textbook introduction to the field. The book sheds new light on the economics and management of intellectual property in large corporations in Europe, Japan and the US. Special emphasis is given to strategies for the acquisition and commercialization of new technologies, patent strategies and strategies for secrecy and trademark, technology intelligence and corporate management of intellectual property. It includes an in-depth study of leading large corporations in Japan - including Canon, Hitachi, Toshiba and Sony. In conclusion, it explores the possible evolution of intellectual property management towards a distributed intellectual capital management in the context of a wider transition to intellectual capitalism, fueled by new technologies in general and new infocom technologies in particular. The book will have particular appeal to practitioners such as managers, economists, engineers and lawyers as well as students and scholars of industrial organization, economics of innovation and technical change, and management of technology. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Can the United States meet its security challenges through economic incentives and expanded commercial exchange? How can market access and technology transfer build stable long-term cooperative relations between countries? Incentives have been prescribed for diverse problems including dissuading North Korea from developing nuclear weapons or convincing the Ukraine to destroy them, and encouraging developing nations to adopt less environmentally dangerous economic policies...read more

Product Description: Scientists in the laboratory often fail to take advantage of the commercial exploitation of their research. Technology Transfer is a careful account of how to start the process of commercialization of technology, and describes in detail the difficulties, and amount of time needed, to carry the process through to a successful conclusion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays in this volume have been chosen to illustrate the diversity of scholarship which has been directed towards understanding the complex process of technology transfer in its business contexts. The first part considers the theory and process of technology transfer as developed by economists, sociologists and historians...read more