Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and the entrepreneurial university

the effects of previewing and providing background knowledge on iranian university efl learners’ comprehension of literary and academic texts

abstract poor reading comprehension can result in failure in using references, benefiting from professional gatherings and resources, keeping up with the growing body of knowledge in the virtual world of the internet, and failing to achieve in efl programs. the purpose of the present quasi-experimental study was to explore the effects of background knowledge and previewing narrative and expos...

Entrepreneurial University, a Necessity for Knowledge-Based Economy; Evaluation and Explanation of Entrepreneurial Capacity of University of Mazandaran

Entrepreneurship, is an idea and a process in which an individual or group identifies new opportunities and exploits them successfully. Universities as knowledge producing and knowledge distributing institutions play a greater role in industrial innovation. In fact the emergence of entrepreneurial university is a response to the increasing importance of knowledge in national and regional system...

Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property and Effective University-industry Partnerships

Technological endowments in entrepreneurial partnerships ∗ Xavier

This paper discusses a novel argument to interpret the importance of thinking of collaborative partnerships in pre-competitive agreements. To do so, we adopt a dynamic iterative process to model technology diffusion between the partners of an agreement. We find that the success of an agreement of a given length hinges around identifying the suitable efficient combinations of the initial technol...

University Knowledge Transfer Offices and Social Responsibility

Numerous studies and reviews about University Knowledge Transfer Offices (UKTO) have been written, but there are few that focus on Social Responsibility (SR). We present a systematic review of the research on both fields. We consider not only logics from agency theory and resource-based view, but also the dynamic approach from institutional theory, as they aim to generate sustainable economic a...