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Pereira, Rosivalda; Franco, Mário – Industry and Higher Education, 2022
This study aims to present the relationship between universities and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through a systematic literature review. SMEs play an important role in economic development. Similarly, universities are important actors in the innovation system. To fulfil the study objective, data were collected from the Scopus…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship, Small Businesses, Innovation
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Limones Meráz, Tomás Francisco; Amador, Julieta Flores; Reaiche, Carmen – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
To keep up with rapid evolutions in technical and scientific developments, countries must create competitive dynamics that enable key actors to generate high-tech projects, boosting both a country's productivity and economic development. Higher education institutions (HEIs), with their intellectual capital and as core generators of knowledge, are…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Foreign Countries, Competition, Technological Advancement
Valdivia, Walter D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Extant evaluation studies of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 have focused primarily on its effects on the pace of innovation and on the norms and practices of academic research but neglected other public values. Seeking to redress this shortcoming, I begin by examining Bayh-Dole with respect to other relevant public values following the "Public Value…
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Competition, Political Influences, Political Power
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Ng'ang'a, S. I.; Kabethi, J. M.; Kiumbe, P. M.; Otii, Leonard – African Higher Education Review, 2014
In Less Developed Countries (LDCs), most graduates from higher institutions of learning are absorbed in the informal sector and/or micro and small enterprises. Knowledge development through training, research and experiential learning may lead to creating or discovering new knowledge/technology or creating new value, by applying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Small Businesses, Adoption (Ideas), Technology Transfer
Andewelt, Roger B. – 1987
The recent increased awareness of the importance to our economy of innovation and the development of new technologies has been coupled with the crafting of new legislation to increase the level of intellectual property protection available to innovators. Because one of the key methods of encouraging the efficient use of intellectual property is…
Descriptors: Certification, Competition, Federal Legislation, Innovation
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Samuelson, Pamela – Science, Technology, & Human Values, 1987
Addresses conditions and concerns involved in accommodating the interests of both innovators of new technologies and the general public. Discusses the tension that exists in intellectual property law between innovators and competitors. Focuses on cases dealing with computer software and semiconductor chip designs, genetically-engineered life…
Descriptors: Competition, Computer Science, Ethics, Genetic Engineering