Important work for our thesis. Contains a lot of discussions and research results regarding incentives, policies, culture and environment. Also some interesting methods on how to trascribe and analyse interview data.

presents evidence/theories that suggests: -TTO poorly staffed with business experience may cause lower performance -Inventors require better incentives both in form of financial compensation and not least -promotion, i.e. TT work consider sidelined or better with other work such as publishing. -Strict policies and heavy bureaucracy impedes TT. Delays and high demands scare off industry. -Industry sometimes directly contact researchers to avoid TT/university management hassle, hence no disclosures in these cases

-- HakonSkeide - 31 Jul 2009