‘Repeat commercializers,’ the ‘habitual entrepreneurs’ of university–industry technology transfer (original) (raw)
2009, Technovation
Among academic faculty, is there a class of ‘repeat commercializers’ who account for a disproportionate share of commercialized technologies arising from university research? In a survey of 172 engineering, mathematics, and science faculty members from a major Canadian university, we found evidence that a class of repeat commercializers does exist. Further, we found that the 12% of the faculty who
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