ASSESSING UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: A MEASURE OF EFFICIENCY PATTERNS

Jisun Kim (), Timothy Anderson () and Tugrul Daim ()
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Jisun Kim: Department of Engineering and Technology Management, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USA
Timothy Anderson: Department of Engineering and Technology Management, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USA
Tugrul Daim: Department of Engineering and Technology Management, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USA

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), 2008, vol. 05, issue 04, 495-526

Abstract: There have been very active and significant studies done in the area of university technologies transfer (UTT). One interested topic among them is to measure performance of the UTT. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been regarded as a proper approach to measure the university technology transfer efficiency (UTTE). However, current studies stay in identifying efficient and inefficient universities and related output or input variables which could contribute to improve their efficiencies. This study is intended to understand further how the universities recognized efficient are different and the changes of their performance over years. For this purpose, this study proposes a new approach, the efficiency pattern diagram, to identify changing patterns of the technology transfer of 17 efficient universities out of 51 US universities from 2001 to 2004. Five efficiency patterns are identified by this study: "newly emerging", "strengthening", "strong", "weakening", and "declining". The properties of each pattern and limitations of the approach are discussed with verification of the pattern by extending them to 2005.

Keywords: Universities; technology transfer; data envelopment analysis; efficiency pattern; evaluation of technology transfer; technology transfer process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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