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作者

Mary Donegan Maryann Feldman

来源

INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW,

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英文

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作者单位

1University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA;2University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

摘要

This article examines the development of university technology transfer operations at the Research Triangle region’s three universities. Organized to commercialize university-based scientific inventions, this expertise was essential to university engagement in the region’s long-term development. Early collaborative efforts to jump-start technology transfer in the region were promoted via a joint licensing consortium. Those early efforts—and their eventual devolution to the universities—are critical to understanding the region’s subsequent development. We document a process of competing institutional logics and institutional interpretation, with officials from each campus continually interpreting the collaborative’s value against their own institution’s evolving needs.