Investigating factors that may explain TT performance differences among universities

Performance is measured in two ways: number of licensee firms that go public and sale royalties

Suggest that even though more attention towards TT, innovation and IPR is imposed, marginal university innovation offered to the market may have declined in commercial appeal. Quantity over quality...

Hypothesis 1: Universities that are more selective in deciding which technologies to patent and licence to start-ups and small companies will exhibit higher levels of TT performance than universities that are less selective

Hypothesis 2a&b : For universities located in entrepreneurial weak/strong external environments high selectivity in deciding which technologies to patent and licence to start-ups and small companies will be more positively related to TT performance under...

Includes thorough description of methodology

Contingency issues, complex situations with many variables, e.g. for public Uni a policy of selectivity appears to have different benefits depending on the nature of their external environment for entrepreneurship.

Interaction between selectivity and support...negative and significant interaction effect of support and on the selectivity-royalties relationship

selectivity has no effect on royalty flows and support at either extreme... The "better" position may be the middle ground... although public institutions may benefit from emphasizing a high selectivity , high support policy orientation for TT

Older TTOs performs better than newer ones. Some new tries to imitate the success of e.g MIT, but fails because the same methods can not be applied to another place.

-- HakonSkeide - 27 Mar 2009