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The aim of this authoritative selection is to synthesize the
burgeoning, heterogeneous literature on institutions and agents
engaged in technological entrepreneurship at universities. These
studies highlight the importance of institutional incentives and
organizational practices in stimulating entrepreneurship, and
clearly demonstrate the multiplicity of stakeholder objectives,
perceptions and outcomes relating to it. However the evidence is
much less clear on the effectiveness of property-based institutions
designed to promote technological entrepreneurship, such as science
parks and incubators. The volume covers four related topics:
university licensing and patenting; science parks and incubators;
university-based start ups; and the role of academic science in
entrepreneurship. Professor Siegel - a leading authority in the
field - has written a scholarly new introduction which summarizes
the key findings of these studies and discusses their managerial
and policy implications.
Science and technology have long been regarded as important
determinants of economic growth. Edwin Mansfield (1971, pp. 1- 2),
a pioneer in the economics of technological change, noted:
Technological change is an important, if not the most important,
factor responsible for economic growth . . . without question, [it]
is one of the most important determinants of the shape and
evolution of the American economy. Science and technology are even
more important in the "new economy," with its greater emphasis on
the role of intellectual property and knowledge transfer.
Therefore, it is unfortunate that most individuals rarely have the
opportunity to explore the economic implications of science and
technology. As a result, the antecedents and consequences of
technological change are poorly understood by many in the general
public. This lack of understanding is reflected in a recent survey
conducted by the National Science Board (2000), summarized in
Science & Engineering Indicators. ' As shown in Table 1. 1, the
findings of the survey indicated that many Americans, despite a
high level of interests in such matters, are not as well-informed
about technological issues as they are about other policy issues.
As shown in the table, individuals self assess, based on a scale
from 1 to 100, their interest in science and technology policy
issues as being relatively high, yet they self assess their
knowledge or informedness about these issues relatively lower.
Science and technology have long been regarded as important
determinants of economic growth. Edwin Mansfield (1971, pp. 1- 2),
a pioneer in the economics of technological change, noted:
Technological change is an important, if not the most important,
factor responsible for economic growth . . . without question, [it]
is one of the most important determinants of the shape and
evolution of the American economy. Science and technology are even
more important in the "new economy," with its greater emphasis on
the role of intellectual property and knowledge transfer.
Therefore, it is unfortunate that most individuals rarely have the
opportunity to explore the economic implications of science and
technology. As a result, the antecedents and consequences of
technological change are poorly understood by many in the general
public. This lack of understanding is reflected in a recent survey
conducted by the National Science Board (2000), summarized in
Science & Engineering Indicators. ' As shown in Table 1. 1, the
findings of the survey indicated that many Americans, despite a
high level of interests in such matters, are not as well-informed
about technological issues as they are about other policy issues.
As shown in the table, individuals self assess, based on a scale
from 1 to 100, their interest in science and technology policy
issues as being relatively high, yet they self assess their
knowledge or informedness about these issues relatively lower.
There has been a substantial rise in the number of entrepreneurship
courses and programs at colleges and universities. Despite the
rapid rise of undergraduate entrepreneurship, there have been few
academic studies of this phenomenon. Little is known about the
antecedents and consequences of these activities. Student
Start-Ups: The New Landscape of Academic Entrepreneurship is the
first book of its kind on student entrepreneurship. It sets out to
provide a structured approach to understanding the development of
the phenomenon by synthesizing and offering the best available
quantitative data and new case studies from a range of countries
and universities. In doing so, they present the evolution of
different models of student entrepreneurship with insights and
implications for practice, policy and research.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) continues to grow as an area
of interest in academia and business. Encompassing broad topics
such as the relationship between business, society, and government,
environmental issues, globalization, and the social and ethical
dimensions of management and corporate operation, CSR has become an
increasingly interdisciplinary subject relevant to areas of
economics, sociology, and psychology, among others. New directions
in CSR research include advanced 'micro' based investigations in
organizational behaviour and human resource management, additional
studies of environmental social responsibility and sustainability,
further research on 'strategic' CSR, connections between social
responsibility and entrepreneurship, and improvements in methods
and data analysis as the field matures. Through authoritative
contributions from international scholars across the social
sciences, this Handbook provides a cohesive overview of this recent
expansion. It introduces new perspectives, new methodologies, and
new evidence from a range of disciplines to encourage and
facilitate interdisciplinary research and global implementation of
corporate social responsibility.
Business schools, the media, the corporate sector, governments, and
non-governmental organizations have all begun to pay more attention
to issues of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in recent years.
These issues encompass broad questions about the changing
relationship between business, society and government,
environmental issues, corporate governance, the social and ethical
dimensions of management, globalization, stakeholder debates,
shareholder and consumer activism, changing political systems and
values, and the ways in which corporations can respond to new
social imperatives.
This Oxford Handbook is an authoritative review of the academic
research that has both prompted, and responded to, these issues.
Bringing together leading experts in the area, it provides clear
thinking and new perspectives on CSR and the debates around it.
The Handbook is divided into seven key sections:
* Introduction,
* Perspectives on CSR,
* Critiques of CSR,
* Actors and Drivers,
* Managing CSR,
* CSR in Global Context,
* Future Perspectives and Conclusions.
About the Series
Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management bring together the
world's leading scholars on the subject to discuss current research
and the latest thinking in a range of interrelated topics including
Strategy, Organizational Behavior, Public Management, International
Business, and many others. Containing completely new essays with
extensive referencing to further reading and key ideas, the
volumes, in hardback or paperback, serve as both a thorough
introduction to a topic and a useful desk reference for scholars
and advanced students alike.
Assessing the Role of the Federal Government in the Development of
New Products, Industries, and Companies examines the role of the
federal government in the development of major innovations. This is
done in a purely descriptive manner, specifically identifying and
describing major products, industries, and firms resulting from
U.S. government funding of research in the years since World War II
(WWII). It is well known that during WWII and the famous 'Manhattan
Project,' the Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National Laboratories played
a key role in the development of the atom bomb and nuclear energy.
What is less well known is the role of the federal and national
labs in the development of such key technologies as radar,
lithium-ion batteries, and computers. The evidence clearly shows
that these investments in military and space R&D ultimately had
numerous significant commercial applications. This monograph is
organized as follows. First, it outlines a strategy for identifying
major products, industries, and companies resulting from government
funding in the years since WWII, requiring the authors to define
the concept of a general purpose technology (GPT). They conclude
with a description of 40 innovations that have had a major impact
on our economy and society. The description of these innovations
contains fairly-detailed explanations of how these products were
developed and how they made their way from lab to market. The
outcomes of these federal investments in technology are quite
impressive, both in terms of their economic and social impacts.
This book presents a reader-friendly analysis and synthesis of the
key economic and management approaches to innovation,
entrepreneurship, and technological change. Link and Siegel provide
precise definitions of key concepts, present numerous historical
examples to illustrate these concepts, outline a framework for
analyzing key topics, compare and contrast different theoretical
frameworks, provide a reader-friendly interpretation of
quantitative and qualitative findings, and emphasize international
comparisons of innovation infrastructure and technology policy.
Key topics covered include:
DT basic concepts of innovation and technological change,
DT a history of the role of the entrepreneur in innovation,
DT the impact of innovation and information technology on
performance,
DT the analysis of technological spillovers,
DT innovation in the service sector,
DT university technology commercialization and entrepreneurship,
including property-based institutions such as research parks and
incubators,
DT entrepreneurship in the public sector,
DT the first systematic analysis and synthesis of the new
interdisciplinary literature on technology commercialization and
entrepreneurship at universities.
While the book reflects the complexities of debate around these
topics, it will be an important guide to the area for academics,
graduate, and advanced undergraduate students of Business Studies,
Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Studies. The book also
provides a roadmap of specific recommendations for managers and
policymakers.
There is growing interest among academics and policymakers in the
economics of gambling, which has been stimulated by major
regulatory and tax changes in the U.S., U.K. Continental Europe,
Asia, Australia and elsewhere. Unfortunately, there is no
comprehensive source of path-breaking research on this topic. To
fill this gap, we commissioned chapters from leading economists on
all aspects of gambling research. Topics covered include the
optimal taxation structure for various forms of gambling, factors
influencing the demand and supply of gambling services, forecasting
of gambling trends, regulation of gambling, the efficiency of
racetrack and sports betting markets, gambling prevalence and
behavior, modeling the demand for gambling services, the economic
impact of gambling, substitution and complementarities among
different types of gambling activity, and the relationship between
gambling and other sectors of the economy. These are all important
issues, with significant global implications. Specifically, we
divide the Handbook into sections on casinos, sports betting,
horserace betting, betting strategy, motivation, behavior and
decision-making in betting markets, prediction markets and
political betting, and lotteries and gambling machines
There has been a substantial rise in the number of entrepreneurship
courses and programs at colleges and universities. Despite the
rapid rise of undergraduate entrepreneurship, there have been few
academic studies of this phenomenon. Little is known about the
antecedents and consequences of these activities. Student
Start-Ups: The New Landscape of Academic Entrepreneurship is the
first book of its kind on student entrepreneurship. It sets out to
provide a structured approach to understanding the development of
the phenomenon by synthesizing and offering the best available
quantitative data and new case studies from a range of countries
and universities. In doing so, they present the evolution of
different models of student entrepreneurship with insights and
implications for practice, policy and research.
As state support and federal research funding dwindle, universities
are increasingly viewing their intellectual property portfolios as
lucrative sources of potential revenue. Nearly all research
universities now have a technology transfer office to manage their
intellectual property, but many are struggling to navigate this new
world of university-industry partnerships. Given the substantial
investment in academic research and millions of dollars potentially
at stake, identifying best practices in university technology
transfer and academic entrepreneurship is of paramount importance.
"The "C"hicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and
Academic Entrepreneurship "is the first definitive source to
synthesize state-of-the-art research in this arena. Edited by three
of the foremost experts in the field, the handbook presents
evidence from entrepreneurs, administrators, regulators, and
professors in numerous disciplines. Together they address the key
managerial and policy implications through chapters on how to
sustain successful research ventures, ways to stimulate academic
entrepreneurship, maintain effective open innovation strategies,
and improve the performance of university technology transfer
offices.
A broad and ambitious work, the handbook offers comprehensive
coverage for universities of all types, allowing them to
confidently handle technology commercialization and further
cultivate innovation.
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