Conveners
Hester Tack (*email address protected*)
Elena Simeonova (*email address protected*)
Transferring knowledge from academia to business has proven to be quite a challenge. Many universities use both formal and informal transfer mechanisms to achieve this. Formal mechanisms include patenting IP that has arisen out of research and trying to license these patents out to companies. This is the basis of the classical technology transfer. Informal mechanisms include research collaboration, facility sharing etc. These mechanisms focus more on knowledge transfer rather than technology transfer.
Due to the changing environment that universities operate in, the classical technology transfer models are beginning to lose their efficiency and knowledge transfer appears to be more of interest to companies than the in-licensing of technologies. The latter activity, however, is still being carried out but is only a small portion of all academic- industry interaction, and this share seems to be diminishing as time progresses. In addition, from the government’s perspective, the need to demonstrate societal impact from sponsored research is also growing.
Companies have changed internally as well and many are looking towards Open Innovation Models with both academia as well as industry but also with local or national societal groups. This means they are looking for alternative ways of interacting with various groups to acquire new ideas, knowledge and technologies.
This track aims to make an inventory of new and innovative knowledge and technology transfer models used across various countries between academic-industry groups, consortia, alliances etc, and measure in so far possible through existing metrics. In addition, this track aims to come up with new metrics as well as performance indicators that can be used to measure societal impact achieved through knowledge transfer activities.
- ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY AND ITS SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT
- SCIENCE PARKS AND INCUBATORS – NEW FRONTIERS
- MEASURING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARKS
- REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF TRIPLE HELIX? CLUSTERS, CITIES AND GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES
- INDIVIDUALS IN THE TRIPLE HELIX
- BUSINESS LED TRIPLE HELIX AND THE NEW ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
- THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL INFORMATION FLOWS ON TRIPLE HELIX INTERACTIONS UNIVERSITY – INDUSTRY INTERACTIONS
- ARE WE FACING A NEW GENERATION OF NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS?
- THE TRIPLE HELIX MODEL AND KNOWLEDGE CREATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
- TRIPLE HELIX: GENDER, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DIVERSITY
- ADVANCING NEW MODELS AND TOOLS FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
- BOOSTING INNOVATION AND GROWTH THROUGH UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY CO-CREATION
- CLUSTER GOVERNANCE AS PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF TRIPLE HELIX AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT