Editorial: Moving beyond metaphors: University-industry collaboration in biotechnology
A PERCEIVED GAP There is enormous public interest in the role of universities as a primary source of new knowledge, new skills and new ideas for addressing many issues facing industrialised societies. In recognition of this, programmes to promote university–industry collaboration have expanded rapidly in recent years. Nevertheless, despite an abundance of such programmes and resources to facilitate the translation of technology from universities to industry, there often appear to be very significant disparities between the needs and requirements of industry and the university. A couple of recent quotes serve to illustrate this point:
The Effect of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intention: An Experimental Study on Undergraduate Business Students
The main aim of this study is to reveal the effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intentions of students. Participants of this study in which field experiment was carried out consisted of experimental group involving 207 participants who were exposed to experimental stimulus (entrepreneurship education) and control group involving 131 participants who had characteristics similar to experimental group but who were not exposed to experimental stimulus. Within this scope, this study was carried out by applying pre-test and post-test at the beginning and in the end of the term to measure entrepreneurial intentions of undergraduate students at the Department of Business, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Gazi University who enrolled in the university the same year, and who were divided into two groups as experimental (received entrepreneurship education within 15-week syllabus) and control (did not receive entrepreneurship education). Findings of the study show that there was a statistically significant difference between the entrepreneurial intentions of students before (beginning of term) and after (end of term) receiving entrepreneurship education. While no significant difference was found in two dimensions of entrepreneurial intention namely “innovation and action” and “family support”, there were significant differences in the dimensions of “determination and perseverance”, challenges of starting business” and “negative thoughts on running one’s own business”. Furthermore, it was found that scores of experimental group in these three dimensions after receiving entrepreneurship education were higher than their scores before the education. On the other hand, compared to experimental group, control group did not show any significant difference both in their general entrepreneurial intentions and in each dimension of entrepreneurial intention.
Linking international technology transfer with strategy and management: a literature commentary
Abstract This article represents an attempt to link literature from diverse but fundamentally related areas: research on international technology transfer as well as on technology strategy and management. It argues that these literatures need to be linked because both treat problems inherent to managing technology development that must succeed at the level of the firm, not the level of the nation state or government facilities. The discussion here focuses on issues that frequently appear in recent writings on international technology transfer: the relationship between international technology transfer and cultivation of indigenous capabilities within the technology recipients; organizational options and their effectiveness for international technology transfer; the influence of external factors on the outcomes of international technology transfer process for technology recipients; and policies of host-country governments concerning transfer of foreign technology. We examine these issues from the viewpoints of both international technology transfer and technology strategy and management. The objective is to identify perspectives from research on technology strategy and management that might help solve basic problems in international technology transfer.