Differences in technology transfer between science-based and development based industries: transfer mechanisms and barriers

Victor Gilsing, Rudi Bekkers, Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas and Marianne van Der Steen
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Victor Gilsing: Tilburg University [Tilburg] - Netspar
Marianne van Der Steen: Antwerp Management School

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Abstract: Differences in technology transfer between science-based and development-based industries: transfer mechanisms and barriers Gilsing V.; Bekkers, R.; Bodas Freitas, I. M. and Van der Steen, M. Abstract Although several studies in the wide body of literature on technology transfer have hinted at differences across industries, this still remains an understudied issue. Our study addresses this topic and considers to what degree technology transfer processes differ across different industrial sectors. To that end, we study to what extent technology transfer processes differ along both types of transfer mechanisms and key barriers inhibiting the transfer process. Based on a survey of Dutch practitioners on both sides of the transfer process, we test a number of hypotheses that differentiate between science-based regimes and development-based regimes. While our findings confirm our hypotheses concerning differences between the regimes regarding the use of specific transfer mechanisms, we also find that both regimes share a number of mechanisms that are similar. In addition, our findings show a remarkable degree of similarity among barriers inhibiting the process. We discuss these findings within the context of the broader literature and formulate policy implications.

Keywords: university-industry technology transfer; technology transfer mechanisms; technology transfer barriers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Published in Technovation, 2011, 31 (12), pp.638-647. ⟨10.1016/j.technovation.2011.06.009⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2011.06.009

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