Creating a university technology commercialisation programme: confronting conflicts between learning, discovery and commercialisation goals
| dc.contributor.author | Aten, Kathryn | |
| dc.contributor.author | Meyer, Alan D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Krause, Alan J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Metzger, Matthew L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Holloway, Samuel S. | |
| dc.contributor.corporate | Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.) | en_US |
| dc.date | 2011 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-11T19:11:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-11T19:11:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.description | Author Kathryn Aten wrote this paper when affiliated with the Naval Postgraduate School. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Our knowledge-based society is pressing universities to transform from monastic scholarly enclaves into producers of new technologies and incubators of start-up firms. However, converting scientists’ curiosity-driven discoveries into commercially viable innovations has proven so difficult that observers liken the journey to crossing a ‘Valley of Death’. We conceptualise the challenges of commercialising university inventions in terms of three gaps: the technology discovery gap, the commercialisation gap, and the venture launch gap. We chronicle the inception and evolution of a technology commercialisation programme at the University of Oregon, relating how the university confronted and dealt with the three gaps, and describing the intra-organisational partnerships developed to address them. We find that negotiating the gaps requires assimilation of a technology commercialisation mission into the traditional academic missions of education and scientific discovery. To do this, universities must confront fundamental contradictions between learning, discovery, and commercialisation. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation’s Partnerships for Innovation Program | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | University of Oregon’s Vice President for Research | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Center for Law and Entrepreneurship | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | deans of the UO business and law schools | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 20 p. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Int. J. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Vol. 13, No. 2, (2011), p. 179-198 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10945/48657 | |
| dc.publisher | Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. | en_US |
| dc.rights | This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States. | en_US |
| dc.subject.author | university technology commercialisation | en_US |
| dc.subject.author | technology transfer | en_US |
| dc.subject.author | multidisciplinary education | en_US |
| dc.subject.author | university spinouts | en_US |
| dc.subject.author | regional economic development | en_US |
| dc.title | Creating a university technology commercialisation programme: confronting conflicts between learning, discovery and commercialisation goals | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |
