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...

The third sector of national innovation systems comprises non-academic, publicly owned R&D organizations that complement universities and private-sector firms and are normally called ‘research inst...

Christian Handke is assistant professor of Cultural Economics in the Department for the Study of the Arts and Culture at Erasmus University and Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management, Bournemouth University.

Ron Adner has written a path breaking text on the dynamics and management of innovation systems that is easily accessible to the reader and of interest to innovation scholars and practitioners alik...

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...

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Marc Bahlmann is assistant professor at VU University Amsterdam. He received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Social Sciences (VU University) for a study on knowledge dynamics among IT entrepreneurs located in the Amsterdam IT and new media cluster. His current research in...

Sharing or exchanging research material is typically formalised through material transfer agreements. The aim of this article is to put into critical perspective the empirical findings on modes and impacts of these agreements vis-a-vis commonly accepted concerns formula...