Institutional Evolution and the Collaborative Development of Technology Transfer Capabilities

Mary Donegan and Maryann Feldman

International Regional Science Review, 2022, vol. 45, issue 6, 636-662

Abstract: This article examines the development of university technology transfer operations at the Research Triangle region’s three universities. Organized to commercialize university-based scientific inventions, this expertise was essential to university engagement in the region’s long-term development. Early collaborative efforts to jump-start technology transfer in the region were promoted via a joint licensing consortium. Those early efforts—and their eventual devolution to the universities—are critical to understanding the region’s subsequent development. We document a process of competing institutional logics and institutional interpretation, with officials from each campus continually interpreting the collaborative’s value against their own institution’s evolving needs.

Keywords: urban and regional economic development; economic growth and development; policy and applications; universities; organizational change; research and development; innovation; other policy and applications; policy and applications; university technology transfer; TULCO; regional consortium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/0160017620922886

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