University‐Industry Collaboration on Technology Transfer

Views from the Ivory Tower

Bibliographic Data

ID6329756
AuthorsYong S Lee (Iowa State University, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume26
Issue1
Pages69-84
Publication date1998-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy Studies Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1541-0072.1998.tb01925.x
OpenAlexW2036985257
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited10

This article reports the results of a national survey that examines the concerns of American faculty about close university industry collaboration and explores how these concerns may impinge upon their participation in industrial innovation. The data show that while academics are generally, but cautiously, in favor of close collaboration, they live with deep tension that is caused by two powerfully competing realities: the instrumental need for industry funding, and the intrinsic need to preserve intellectual freedom. A challenge to public policy is to fashion a positive‐sum strategy (e.g., tax incentives) in which firms would be encouraged to increase funding for their academic collaborators, who then may fulfill their research mission better while contributing to industrial innovation

Business · Economics · Incentive · Ivory tower · Market economy · Political science · Public relations · Technology transfer · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Law · Public Administration · Research, Science, and Academia

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