This paper integrates the contributions from different branches of the technology transfer literature to identify enablers driving the transfer of intermediate or appropriate technologies to recipients in rural areas of developing economies. An in-depth analysis of the ...

Frischmann’s book has to be considered in the context of a recent stream of original contributions aimed at integrating research from different social science disciplines to address shortcomings in...

International audience; This article develops a conceptual framework to explain the economic rationales underpinning the choice of different modes of governance of formal university-industry interactions: personal contractual interactions, where the contract regulating ...

This study is concerned with how impact from research and innovation (R&I) programmes is accounted for in impact evaluation reports. Establishing causal links between a research funding instrument and different effects, poses well known methodological difficulties. In t...

Understanding how economies change through interactions with science and government as different spheres of activity requires both new conceptual tools and methodologies. In this paper, the evolution of the metaphor of a Triple Helix of university–industry–government re...

This paper explores key issues in the development of open access to research data. The use of digital means for developing, storing and manipulating data is creating a focus on ‘data-driven science’. One aspect of this focus is the development of ‘open access’ to resear...

This paper analyses how and why different types of innovation systems interact through analysing seven Australian sectors. We find that there are sets of mechanisms or systems that 'articulate'; i.e. structure and shape the interaction among sectoral innovation systems ...

The disciplines that comprise contemporary science and technology studies have long argued that technologies are value laden and able to affect, translate and mediate human interactions. Technology...

Nonaka and takeuchi’s highly influential account of tacit–explicit knowledge-conversion in japan’s knowledge-creating companies has been instrumental in knowledge management’s institutionalisation of michael polanyi’s distinction between ‘tacit knowledge’ and ‘explicit ...