The Journal of Technology Transfer

1977 - 2026

Current editor(s): Albert N. Link, Donald S. Siegel, Barry Bozeman and Simon Mosey

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Volume 51, issue 4, 2026

Journal of Technology Transfer Editor-in-Chief for 29 years: reflections on changes in technology transfer research pp. 2113-2116

Albert N. Link

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship and innovation: taking stock and new directions pp. 2117-2140

David Audretsch, Maksim Belitski and Antje Fiedler

“The company I keep is not corporate enough”: exploring the specificities of University startups pp. 2141-2171

Alex Coad

A taxonomy of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: firm types and knowledge sources pp. 2172-2197

Alice Civera, Julian Enrik Schenkenhofer and Silvio Vismara

The knowledge cost approach as a theory of endogenous technological change: evidence from European regions pp. 2198-2221

Cristiano Antonelli and Guido Pialli

Enhancing knowledge spillover of innovation through artificial intelligence: an empirical investigation pp. 2222-2250

Elettra D’Amico, Maksim Belitski, Alessandro Braga and Robert Savoie

Local industrial cohesion as a diffusion mechanism for incremental knowledge: evidence from business and economic indicators in U.S. Counties pp. 2251-2273

Alexandra Tsvetkova and Mark Partridge

Technology transfer, knowledge spillover and foreign direct investment pp. 2274-2301

Gustavo Barboza, Alessandro Braga, Aubin Duchier, Adriana Chacon, Keyssi Calderón and Gloriana Lang

Organisational determinants of international collaborations in clinical research: evidence from Italian research hospitals pp. 2302-2329

Ugo Finardi and Federica Rossi

A novel method to identify potential collaborators with a patent-based knowledge graph pp. 2330-2366

Jingzhu Wei and Tongrui Zhang

Power dynamics and outbound openness: licensing exclusivity choices in the semiconductor industry pp. 2367-2398

Serge Sime Tchouaso, John Hagedoorn and Hui Tan

Contracts as safeguards against conflicts in science–society research collaborations: the influence of academics’ engagement motives and research orientation pp. 2399-2424

Vitus Püttmann

Academic entrepreneurship through technology transfer: exploring doctoral students’ motivation, social context, and entrepreneurial decision patterns pp. 2425-2454

Matteo Opizzi, Michela Loi and Magnus Klofsten

Firm adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in times of economic turmoil: the role of enabling factors pp. 2455-2485

Marco Cucculelli, Fabio Lamperti, Jasmine Mondolo, Fabrizio Pompei and Francesco Venturini

Global changes and effectiveness of innovation policy in Brazil pp. 2486-2505

Sergio Queiroz, Nicholas Vonortas and Otaviano Canuto

Investigating techonomy: the multilevel effect of R&D investment on economic performance pp. 2506-2537

Rae Yule Kim

Beneath the surface: the complex relationship between gender diversity, DUI-mode, and innovation pp. 2538-2568

Radzivon Marozau, Natalja Apanasovich and Maribel Guerrero

Individual investor trust and cryptocurrency participation: evidence from three Nordic countries pp. 2569-2618

Ylva Baeckström, Akanksha Jalan and Roman Matkovskyy

Predicting post-campaign scenarios of equity crowdfunded firms: a machine learning approach with interaction effect analysis pp. 2619-2655

Ines Gafrej, Oussama Gafrej and Houssam Bouzgarrou

Web4-enabled technology transfer and firm innovation: a resource orchestration perspective pp. 2656-2695

Yancheng Fan, Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos, Yantai Chen and Elias G. Carayannis

Towards a secure and innovative Europe: evidence-based insights on development divergence in the EU-27 pp. 2696-2730

Magdalena Tutak and Jarosław Brodny

Research on the impact of government-led technical standardization on regional innovation performance pp. 2731-2752

Yuxiao Wang, Meiyu Qin, Xingyu Yan, Lige Liu and Tiantian Shang

Individual managers’ market and technological knowledge competence driving management innovation: The mediating roles of effectuation and causation pp. 2753-2791

Jingjing Ge, Sandra Hasanefendic, Claire van Teunenbroek and Bart Bossink

AI and Web3 in sustainable development: a quadruple helix approach to reshaping regional innovation and startup ecosystems in China pp. 2792-2847

Xiaohong Wang and Wei Sun

Impact beyond commercialisation: exploring knowledge area variations in academic engagement with industry pp. 2848-2885

Nina Brankovic, Todd Davey, Sofía Louise Martínez-Martínez and Hélène de Burgh-Woodman

Building deep-tech entrepreneurial ecosystems: factors that promote the presence of deep-tech startups in European regions pp. 2886-2915

Federico Micol, Jip Leendertse and Frank van Rijnsoever

Triple Helix Twins and university impact spillovers for achieving the United Nations sustainable development goals pp. 2916-2941

Antje Fiedler, Maksim Belitski, Benjamin Fath and Martie-Louise Verreynne

AI-simulated entrepreneurship under uncertainty: forecasting university-driven capability evolution pp. 2942-2972

Dafna Kariv, Itay Attar, Yuval Haber and Zohar Elyoseph

Employees’ entrepreneurial orientation in response to exogenous crises: the contingent role of entrepreneurial exposure pp. 2973-3002

Davide Hahn, Alice Civera and Angelo Cavallo

Can public data openness narrow the technology gap? evidence from manufacturing firms in China and the United States pp. 3003-3044

Peiyu Li, Hanmei Zhou, Xinzhi Liu and Qiuhan Zhao

Correction: Can public data openness narrow the technology gap? evidence from manufacturing firms in China and the United States pp. 3045-3046

Peiyu Li, Hanmei Zhou, Xinzhi Liu and Qiuhan Zhao

The ‘underdog’ informal Vietnamese enterprises: R&D, innovation and productivity performances pp. 3047-3078

Marco Di Cintio and Claudio Petti

Correction: The ‘underdog’ informal Vietnamese enterprises: R&D, innovation and productivity performances pp. 3079-3080

Marco Di Cintio and Claudio Petti

Correction: Network variance of scientific team and knowledge creation: a network embeddedness perspective pp. 3081-3081

Shanwu Tian, Xiurui Xu, Yan Yan, Conghui Han and Wei Chen

Volume 51, issue 3, 2026

Barry Bozeman’s retrospective on Journal of Technology Transfer pp. 1133-1137

Barry Bozeman

Building a community of scholars of technology transfer and academic entrepreneurship: reflections on the Journal of Technology Transfer and the growth and development of the field pp. 1138-1142

Donald Siegel

Open innovation deficiency: evidence on project abandonment and delay pp. 1143-1180

Kristof van Criekingen, Mark Freel and Dirk Czarnitzki

Evaluating the resource orchestration of evolving disruptive technologies within ecosystem-based business models: evidence from the Indian railways pp. 1181-1200

Vijay Pereira, Daicy Vaz, Nisha Bamal, Umesh Bamel and Abhishek Behl

Impact of technology transfer offices on university spin-off bankruptcy pp. 1201-1220

Tetsuya Kirihata

Correction: Impact of technology transfer offices on university spin-off bankruptcy pp. 1221-1223

Tetsuya Kirihata

Knowledge spillovers from superstar tech firms: the case of Nokia pp. 1224-1248

Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov, Natalia Kuosmanen and Mika Pajarinen

Technology readiness and digital gap for depicting socio-economic dynamics in society 5.0: a meso-level observation pp. 1249-1265

Pierpaolo Magliocca, Francesca Faggioni, Valerio Muto and Francesco Caputo

Blurring boundaries: knowledge dynamics in organizations, collaborations, and innovation ecosystems pp. 1266-1288

Kevin De Moortel and Thomas Crispeels

Professional social matching for innovation and technology transfer in multiscalar innovation ecosystems: a conceptual framework and first exploratory results pp. 1289-1314

Matteo Spinazzola, Veronica Scuotto and Marco Pironti

An explorative study of how benefit corporation business incubators can support sustainable entrepreneurial development: evidence from Italy pp. 1315-1340

Angelo Bonfanti, Giorgio Mion, Vania Vigolo and Alessia Munnia

Conceptualizing data-driven entrepreneurship: from knowledge creation to entrepreneurial opportunities and innovation pp. 1341-1392

Mara Grimaldi, Orlando Troisi, Armando Papa and Elbano de Nuccio

A co-evolutionary knowledge exchange network for the entrepreneurial valorization of academic research: evidence from Italy pp. 1393-1444

Paola M. A. Paniccia, Silvia Baiocco and Francesco Scafarto

The masking effect of entrepreneurship on the link of university-firm technology transfers to inclusive growth: a Yin-Yang dialectical systems view pp. 1445-1469

Tachia Chin, Zhibin Zhang, Jiyang Jin, Valentina Cillo and Paola Pisano

The angels and the crowd: business angels’ investment practices and follow-on crowdfunding in entrepreneurial firms pp. 1470-1509

Vincenzo Capizzi, Nicola Carta, Elisa Cavezzali and Ugo Rigoni

The co-evolution of internal knowledge characteristics of cities and external technology transfer: based on a cross-level network perspective pp. 1510-1535

Keping Wang and Ying Dong

How does R&D collaboration shape the patent quality of universities? pp. 1536-1563

Zulong Su, Renai Jiang, Chun Feng and Dongmei Li

Innovation success in small and larger firms: Does persistence and diversity in R&D matter when building a unique knowledge base? pp. 1564-1600

Olubunmi Ipinnaiye, Helena Lenihan, Kevin Mulligan, Justin Doran and Stephen Roper

From bench to bucks: measuring the medical technology transfer pp. 1601-1624

Xinglong Tang, Peixin He, Ying Zhang, Yang Xu and Xue Jiang

University-industry collaborations: an international perspective pp. 1625-1640

Rajeev Goel

Gender disparities in entrepreneurial finance: drivers, mechanisms, boundary conditions, and future research avenues pp. 1641-1682

Jie Li, Massimo G. Colombo, Cristina Rossi-Lamastra and Candida Brush

Exploring knowledge spillovers: innovation strategies in resource-rich countries pp. 1683-1710

Olena Khlystova and Yelena Kalyuzhnova

Bureaucratic constraints and investment attraction: how operational practices influence technology transfer performance in publicly funded business incubators pp. 1711-1741

Eric Mota, Christos Kolympiris, Grigorios Emvalomatis and Peter Klein

Knowledge spillovers, green entrepreneurship and the demand for sustainability: evidence from Italian innovative startups pp. 1742-1767

Alessandra Colombelli, Anna D’Ambrosio, Baptiste Le Masle, Chiara Ravetti and Matteo Tubiana

The effects of regional environmental EU-funded research on firm innovation: a multilevel analysis pp. 1768-1797

Lorena M. D’Agostino, Rosina Moreno and Damián Tojeiro-Rivero

Digital transformation, ESG, and companies’ performance: an exploratory study of the European food sector pp. 1798-1819

Magdalena Marczewska, Scott W. Hegerty, Roma Panwar and Mariusz Kostrzewski

The power of knowledge: unraveling the influence of knowledge characteristics on inter-firm patent transfers pp. 1820-1851

Ding Ma and Zhishan Cai

Does the fusion of incubatees’ entrepreneurial skills with the incubator’s services and facilities boost the performance of technology business incubators? pp. 1852-1895

Abhimanyu Goyal, Ravi Kiran and Subhas Chandra Bose

Workforce age diversity and the intensity of inventive activities in universities pp. 1896-1932

Gary Chapman, Shukhrat Nasirov, Mathew Hughes and Paul Hughes

Strategy and business model development for business incubators: a systematic literature review and framework pp. 1933-1964

Franz Breu and Dominik K. Kanbach

High-quality innovation and low-quality innovation bubbles: addressing challenges through R&D cooperation and citation spillover pp. 1965-2002

Shenghao Yang, Renai Jiang, Zulong Su and Gary Jefferson

Resource sharing in enterprise groups and innovation failure: emerging innovation systems perspective pp. 2003-2033

Nebojsa Stojcic, Nina Vujanovic and Slavo Radosevic

Optimizing pie distribution: exploring the interplay of labor costs and university-industry collaboration pp. 2034-2063

Bojun Hou, Kexin Fang, Xing Tang and Qingqiu Gan

Volatility, spillovers, and market resilience in sustainable crypto ecosystems under the systemic stress of the twin transition and geopolitical conflicts pp. 2064-2112

Daniel Ştefan Armeanu, Jean Vasile Andrei, Ştefan Gherghina and Camelia Cătălina Joldeş

Volume 51, issue 2, 2026

The impact of university-industry engagement and the rise of competency transfer partnerships pp. 637-652

David Sarpong, Dirk Meissner, Gustavo Hermínio Salati Marcondes de Moraes and Silvio Vismara

Enhancing green innovation through university–industry collaboration and artificial intelligence: insights from regional innovation systems in China pp. 653-681

Senmao Xia, Yuan Zhou, Zhaoxing Wang, Qile He and Glenn Parry

AI-enhanced competency transfer hubs: a conceptual framework for university-industry engagement and knowledge sharing pp. 682-712

Vikas Arya, Ankita Saraf, Nikolai Chichkanov, Armando Papa and Marco Romano

Technology transfer as an enabler for the emergence of sustainable entrepreneurial universities pp. 713-740

Erica H. S. Siqueira, Adriana Bin and Bruno Brandão Fischer

Towards a governance of technology transfer: fostering impact through goals, people, and resources pp. 741-769

Giovanni Tolin, Francesca Capella, Federico Pedemonte and Lorenzo Rossi

Building engineering competency portfolio in the context of university–industry collaboration: empirical evidence from industrial robotics pp. 770-801

Leonid Gokhberg, Natalia Shmatko, Yurij Katchanov and Yuliya Belova

(Re)envisioning the role of technology transfer intermediaries in socio-technical transition pp. 802-822

Elias Osei, Derrick Boakye and Kwadwo Asante

Building middle managers’ managerial dynamic capabilities through collaborations: exploring the microfoundations in a university–industry consortium pp. 823-853

Antonio Crupi and Letizia Mortara

SMEs as cutting-edge research utilizers: the strategies, motivations, and barriers of forerunners pp. 854-879

Tero Rantala, Minna Saunila, Juhani Ukko and Satu Rinkinen

Gaining from university-industry collaboration: Considerations for less experienced firms pp. 880-910

Ehab Abu Sa′a and Arnthor Gunnarsson

Shaping regional futures: how education and career imprints of officials drive the rise of emerging industries pp. 911-941

Yuan Zhou, Zidi Wang and Qiang Feng

Do founding team motivation types matter for student startups’ survival? Self-oriented, other-oriented, and diverse motivations in academic incubators pp. 942-959

Tali Hadasa Blank

Advancing industrial wastewater treatment through comprehensive evaluation and innovative technology: a G1-entropy improved TOPSIS model approach pp. 960-990

Xin Yu, Sid Suntrayuth, Elias G. Carayannis, Stavros Sindakis and Saloome Showkat

Digital transformation for a circular economy: insights from co-word analysis pp. 991-1020

Isabel Soriano-Pinar, Eloísa Díaz-Garrido and Sara Bermejo-Olivas

Understanding university-industry collaboration: a social exchange perspective on the entrepreneurial university pp. 1021-1040

Carla Susana Marques, Joao Ferreira, Carlos Peixeira Marques and Carmem Leal

Beyond standard practice: Tailoring technology transfer practices through convergent diagramming pp. 1041-1062

Eli Typhina

Seizing the economic and social impact of universities’ knowledge exchange activities: Does one size fit all? pp. 1063-1100

Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent and Victor Martin-Sanchez

Still collaborating? Strengthening intellectual property protection and collaborative innovation choice for enterprises pp. 1101-1126

Tie Wei, Huaihong Pan and Pin Xie

Publisher Correction: Entrepreneurial orientation as a theory of new value creation pp. 1127-1128

William J. Wales, Jeffrey G. Covin, Jens Schüler and Matthias Baum

Author Correction: The geography of the continuum of entrepreneurship activities—a first glance based on German data pp. 1129-1131

Sven Wolff, Christina Guenther, Petra Moog and David B. Audretsch

Volume 51, issue 1, 2026

Critical perspectives on entrepreneurial ecosystems pp. 1-10

Alex Coad, Clemens Domnick, Pietro Santoleri and Stjepan Srhoj

“Close enough to speak; distant enough to learn?” A critique of the entrepreneurial ecosystem metaphor pp. 11-33

Richard T. Harrison

Knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurial ecosystems and the geography of high growth firms redux pp. 34-97

Jun Du, Michail Karoglou, Anastasia Ri and Lin Zhang

Traversing the multiple nested geographies of NUTs based entrepreneurial ecosystems pp. 98-124

Marc Cowling, Ross Brown and Huan Yang

The African entrepreneurial ecosystem index: conceptual, methodological and empirical flaws and the way forward pp. 125-144

Wim Naudé

Does Africa need entrepreneurial ecosystems thinking? pp. 145-171

Alex Coad, Clemens Domnick, Pietro Santoleri and Stjepan Srhoj

The entrepreneur and the ecosystem: extending and operationalizing EE theory from an embeddedness perspective pp. 172-198

Alessandro Giannozzi, Marco Balzano, Alessandro Magrini and Giacomo Marzi

Foundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems configurations pp. 199-225

Bruno Brandão Fischer, André Cherubini Alves, Nicholas S. Vonortas and Ross Brown

A knowledge spillover narrative theory of entrepreneurship pp. 226-242

David B. Audretsch and Erik E. Lehmann

Does the hub and spoke model matter for university-industry engagement in innovation ecosystems? pp. 243-274

Lorenzo Compagnucci, Francesca Spigarelli, Francesco Perugini, Donato Iacobucci and Fabrizio Cobis

Twin ecosystem alignment between innovation ecosystem and knowledge ecosystem: a co-evolution perspective pp. 275-318

Diogo Barbosa Leite, Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes, Lucas Emmanuel Nascimento Silva, Sílvio Luís de Vasconcellos, Felipe Mendes Borini and Kadígia Faccin

Entrepreneurial support organizations in sustainable knowledge-driven ecosystems pp. 319-343

Aveline Cloitre, Christina Theodoraki and Victor Dos Santos Paulino

A configurational exploration of how organizational characteristics and multidimensional proximities influence university-industry collaborations pp. 344-372

Wei Yang and Wantao Chen

A meta-analysis towards the effectiveness of startup accelerators pp. 373-413

Nikolaus Seitz, Martina Buratti, Erik E. Lehmann and Julie Kurrle

The KSTE + I approach and the advent of AI technologies: evidence from the European regions pp. 414-451

Francesco D’Alessandro, Enrico Santarelli and Marco Vivarelli

University-business R&D collaborations and innovation in light of Artificial Intelligence: a new AI-based open innovation paradigm pp. 452-480

Beatrice Orlando, Veronica Scuotto, Valentina Cillo and Manlio Del Giudice

Reverse knowledge spillover theory of public sector entrepreneurship pp. 481-506

Roberto Vivona, Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and Emre Cinar

Unveiling the impact of cross-community collaboration in an innovation ecosystem towards the digital paradigm shift pp. 507-534

Guannan Xu, Ning Kang, Gaoya Li and Yuan Zhou

The co-evolution of ecosystem and university’s roles: a focus on the integration of technologies and cultural heritage pp. 535-553

Cristina Caterina Amitrano and Francesco Bifulco

How to foster innovation in SMEs: evidence of the effectiveness of a project-based technology transfer approach pp. 554-582

Frederic Hilkenmeier, Christian Fechtelpeter and Julian Decius

Entrepreneurial ecosystems, regional clusters, and industrial districts: Historical transformations or rhetorical devices? pp. 583-606

Hector Rocha and David B. Audretsch

Commercialization networks in emerging technologies: the case of UK nanotechnology small and midsize enterprises pp. 607-635

Fatemeh Salehi, Philip Shapira and Judy Zolkiewski