TY - JOUR
T1 - Generating science-based growth
T2 - An econometric analysis of the impact of organizational incentives on university-industry technology transfer
AU - Link, Albert N.
AU - Siegel, Donald S.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank conference participants and DavidAudretsch,Adam Jaffe, and ManuelTrajtenberg for their insightful comments and suggestions. Financial support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through the NBER Project on Industrial Technology and Productivity is gratefully acknowledged.
PY - 2005/6
Y1 - 2005/6
N2 - In recent years, there has been a rapid rise in commercial knowledge transfers from universities to practitioners or university/industry technology transfer (UITT), via licensing agreements, research joint ventures, and startups. In a previous study in 1999, the authors outlined a production function model to assess the relative efficiency of UITT and conducted field research to identify several organizational factors that could enhance the effectiveness of university management of intellectual property portfolios. This paper extends this framework and evaluates the impact of organizational incentives on the effectiveness of UITT. It is found that universities having more attractive incentive structures for UITT, i.e. those that allocate a higher %age of royalty payments to faculty members, tend to be more efficient in technology transfer activities. University administrators who wish to foster UITT should be mindful of the importance of financial incentives.
AB - In recent years, there has been a rapid rise in commercial knowledge transfers from universities to practitioners or university/industry technology transfer (UITT), via licensing agreements, research joint ventures, and startups. In a previous study in 1999, the authors outlined a production function model to assess the relative efficiency of UITT and conducted field research to identify several organizational factors that could enhance the effectiveness of university management of intellectual property portfolios. This paper extends this framework and evaluates the impact of organizational incentives on the effectiveness of UITT. It is found that universities having more attractive incentive structures for UITT, i.e. those that allocate a higher %age of royalty payments to faculty members, tend to be more efficient in technology transfer activities. University administrators who wish to foster UITT should be mindful of the importance of financial incentives.
KW - Organizational incentives
KW - Stochastic frontier estimation (SFE)
KW - University/industry technology transfer (UITT)
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U2 - 10.1080/1351847042000254211
DO - 10.1080/1351847042000254211
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:18144372575
SN - 1351-847X
VL - 11
SP - 169
EP - 181
JO - European Journal of Finance
JF - European Journal of Finance
IS - 3
ER -