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Industrial and Corporate Change, doi:10.1093/icc/dtm020
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved.

An empirical analysis of the propensity of academics to engage in informal university technology transfer*

Albert N. Link, Donald S. Siegel and Barry Bozeman

Correspondence: Albert N. Link, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA. e-mail: al_link{at}uncg.edu.

Correspondence: Donald S. Siegel, Department of Management and Marketing, A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California at Riverside, Anderson Hall, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. e-mail: donald.siegel{at}ucr.edu.

Correspondence: Barry Bozeman, Department of Public Administration and Policy, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. e-mail: bbozeman{at}uga.edu.

Formal university technology transfer mechanisms, through licensing agreements, research joint ventures, and university-based startups, have attracted considerable attention in the academic literature. Surprisingly, there has been little systematic empirical analysis of the propensity of academics to engage in informal technology transfer. This paper presents empirical evidence on the determinants of three types of informal technology transfer by faculty members: transfer of commercial technology, joint publications with industry scientists, and industrial consulting. We find that male, tenured and research-grant active faculty members are more likely to engage in all three forms of informal technology transfer.


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