
2009 Technology Transfer Society Conference Program |
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| 7:15 – 8:10 am | Continental Breakfast at UNCG, Auditorium Foyer |
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8:10 – 9:15 am |
Greeting, Al Link, Department of Economics, UNCG; Conference Organizer |
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Joyner |
Maple |
Dogwood |
Kirkland |
Alexander |
Claxton |
Cone C |
9:30 – 11:00 am |
Public-Sector Entrepreneurship |
Issues in Technology Transfer Roundtable |
Policy Instruments and Technology Transfer |
Public-Sector Entrepreneurship |
Private-Sector Entrepreneurship |
The Entrepreneurial University |
Academic Entrepreneurship |
11:15 – 12:45 pm |
Academic Entrepreneurship |
Government as Entrepreneur |
Public-Sector Entrepreneurship |
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship |
Private-Sector Entrepreneurship |
Academic Entrepreneurship |
How to Make Your University the Technology Source of Choice for Innovation: |
1:00 – 2:30 pm |
*Lunch for Speakers and Technology Transfer Society Members, NC TTOs, and Invited Guest*
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2:45 – 4:15 pm |
Innovation in Science and the Transfer of New Knowledge |
Government as Entrepreneur |
Private-Sector Entrepreneurship |
Public Program Support of Innovative Activity |
Concepts of Innovation |
Innovation and Regional Growth |
Management of Innovation |
4:30 – 6:00 pm |
Intellectual Property and Innovation |
Issues in Technology Transfer Roundtable |
Commerce and Academic Faculty |
Social Entrepreneurship |
Private-Sector Entrepreneurship |
Academic Entrepreneurship |
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6:00 pm |
Adjourn, Buses Depart UNCG for O.Henry Hotel and Proximity Hotel |
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PROGRAM DETAILS
* The final presenter in each session will serve as the session chair *
9:30 am |
Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
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Public-Sector Entrepreneurship |
Evidence that Businesses in Wind Energy Have Build on a Knowledge Base Established by the U.S. Department of Energy |
Rosalie Ruegg |
TIA Consulting, Inc. |
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Generation and Protection of Business Value: Granting of Patents |
Thor Nielsen |
Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP |
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Triple Play or Home Run: A Cooperation Model of Alliance Performance among Government Funded Entrepreneurial and Large Organizations in the Energy Industry |
Cecilia Falbe |
SUNY Albany |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
9:30 am |
Issues in Technology Transfer Roundtable |
Entrepreneurship Education and University Technology Transfer |
Andrew Nelson
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University of Oregon
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Barriers to Commercialization: The Faculty Inventor's Dilemma |
Renee Kaswan
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Founder, IP-Advocate.org
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University Technology Transfer Offices |
Don Siegel |
SUNY Albany |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
9:30 am |
Policy Instruments and Technology Transfer |
Auction Theory vs. Licensing Practice: Case Study of a Medical Device Transferred to a Multi-National Corporation |
Elliot Fishman |
Stevens Institute of Technology |
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R&D Subsidies’ Output Additionality: Some IV Evidence from Finland |
Mariagrazia Squicciarini Chiara Criscuolo |
VVT Technical Research Centre of Finland |
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Technology Proximity between Firms and Universities |
Martin Woerter |
Swiss Economic Institute |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
9:30 am |
Public-Sector Entrepreneurship |
Does the SBIR Program Stimulate Growth? Firm-Level Evidence on the NIH Program |
Andrew Toole |
Rutgers University |
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ISP-Based Cyber Security: Is a New Business Model Feasible? |
Brent Rowe |
RTI International |
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R&D Subsidies to Start-Ups: Effective Drivers of Patent Output and Employment Growth? |
Sarah Koesters |
Friedrich-Schiller-University |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
9:30 am |
Private-Sector Entrepreneurship |
When Do User Innovators Become Entrepreneurs? |
Aaron Chatterji |
Duke University |
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The Management of Industry-University Joint Research Projects |
Valentina Morandi |
University of Brescia |
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Market, Firm, and Project-level Effects on the Innovation Impact of Collaborative Research Projects |
Yiannis Spanos Klas Eric Soderquist Nicholas Vonortas |
Athens University of Economics and Business |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
9:30 am |
The Entrepreneurial University |
Faculty Transition to Entrepreneurship |
Frank Rothaermel |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
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The Internationalization of Science and Its Influence on Academic Entrepreneurship |
Stefan Krabel |
Max Planck Institute of Economics |
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Internal Environment and Academic Entrepreneurship in Malaysian Public Research Universities |
Ainon Jauhariah Abu Samah |
Tun Abdul Razak University |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
9:30 am |
Academic Entrepreneurship |
Is the U.S. Losing Its Preeminence in Higher Education? A Problem of Erosion in the Technology Transfer Base |
Jim Adams |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) |
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What Explains the Quantity and Quality of Local Inventive Activity? |
Robert Hunt |
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
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New Government Policy to Support the Commercialization of University Research: Academic Patentees in Thuringia (Germany) |
Heike Grimm |
Max Planck Institute of Economics |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
11:15 am |
Academic Entrepreneurship |
Empowering Academic Entrepreneurship through Maturation Project Management, Absorptive Capacity and Complementary Assets |
Russell Teasley Frank Lockwood |
North Georgia College and State University |
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Quality of Academic Patents in Europe: An Analysis of Citations Prior Art |
Valerio Sterzi |
University of Brescia and |
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Empirical Testing of Entrepreneurial Universities |
Maribel Guerrero |
Autonomous University of Barcelona |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
11:15 am |
Government as Entrepreneur |
Do Organizational Choices Shape Scientific Progress? |
Kenneth Huang |
Singapore Management University |
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Commercialization of SBIR Inventions |
Al Link |
University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
11:15 am |
Public-Sector Entrepreneurship |
Knowledge Diffusion, Technology Transfer, and the Challenge of Assessment |
Andrew Nelson |
University of Oregon |
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Scotland’s Intermediate Technology Institutes: Has Performance Matched the Promise? |
Geoff Gregson |
University of Edinburgh |
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Identification of Information Technology Issues in Healthcare: The Impact of Respondent Role, Firm Culture and Firm Entrepreneurial Orientation |
Prashant Palvia Hamid Nemati Kevin Lowe |
University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
11:15 am |
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship |
To the Highest Bidder: How NASA Sold Technology Rights through a Public Auction |
Darryl Mitchell |
Goddard Spaceflight Center |
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Productivity Growth and Pecuniary Knowledge Externalities: An Empirical Analysis of Agglomeration Economics in European Regions |
Pier Paolo Patrucco |
University of Turin |
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U.S. Policy Responses to the Globalization of Innovation and R&D |
Ron Hira |
Rochester Institute of Technology |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
11:15 am |
Private-Sector Entrepreneurship |
Organizational Goals, Managerial Attention and Resource Allocation Decisions: A Study of Technology Commercialization at Motorola |
John Joseph |
Duke University |
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Survival Analysis of Incubated Firms in Maryland |
Alan O’Connor |
RTI International |
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The Hyper-Growth of European SMEs: Empirical Evidence and Beyond |
Tommaso Minola |
University of Bergamo |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
11:15 am |
Academic Entrepreneurship |
The Open Innovation Imperative: Perspectives on Success from Faculty Entrepreneurs |
Chris Hayter |
U.S. Coast Guard Academy |
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Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Marching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs |
Pierre Azoulay |
MIT |
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International Scientist Mobility and the Locus of Technology Transfer |
Christoph Grimpe Jakob Edler |
ZEW Center for European Economic Research |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
11:15 am |
How to Make Your University the Technology Source of Choice for Innovation: |
Laura Schoppe, Fuentek, LLC |
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1:00 pm |
Lunch for Speakers, Technology Transfer Society Members, NC TTOs, and Invited Guests |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
2:45 pm |
Innovation in Science and the Transfer of New Knowledge |
Genomic Entrepreneurship: The Emergence of Private Genomics, 1990-2004 |
Ilse Wiechers Robert Cook-Deegan |
IGSP Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy, Duke University |
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Bioentrepreneurship: How to Start |
Oliver Uecke |
University of Technology Dresden |
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The Making of Plasmamedicine: Rewriting the Role of Innovation Management in Technology Transfer and Inderdisciplinary Science Formation |
Christiane Gebhardt |
Malik Management Zentrum St. Gallen |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
2:45 pm |
Government as Entrepreneur |
Does Policy Influence the Commercialization Route? |
Taylor Aldridge |
Max Planck Institute of Economics |
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Entrepreneurial Innovation Policies to Support Regional Growth and Development |
Sean Safford |
University of Chicago |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
2:45 pm |
Private-Sector Entrepreneurship |
University Spin-Off Financing: Comparative Analysis of Access to Venture Capital in Biotechnology |
Kate Hoye |
University of Ottawa |
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Corporate Exploration Competence and the Entrepreneurial Enterprise |
Raphael Klein |
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology |
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Knowledge Formality, Serendipity, and Arbitrage: Their Effect on Sustainable Entrepreneurial Action |
Elias Carayannis |
George Washington University |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
2:45 pm |
Public Program Support of Innovation |
Federal R&D Competitions: Findings from the First Technology Innovation Program (TIP) Award Competition |
Stephen Campbell Stephanie Shipp |
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) |
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Patent Outcomes from the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) |
Andrew Wang |
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) |
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The Impact of the SBIR Program on Participant Growth and Survival |
Gary Anderson |
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
2:45 pm |
Concepts of Innovation |
Cultural Barricades and Adapters in Multi-Field Innovation Diffusion |
Zack Kertcher |
University of Chicago |
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Non-Compete Agreements, Ex-Employees, and Regional Entrepreneurship |
Matt Marx |
MIT |
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Impact of Corporate Responsibility Practices on Innovation Choices |
Annick Castiaux |
University of Namur |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
2:45 pm |
Innovation and Regional Growth |
Regional Innovation Strategy Development Practices |
Tom O’Neal Henriette Schoen |
University of Central Florida Business Incubator Program |
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Modeling the Entrepreneurial Effect: From Bureaucratic Tech Transfer to Entrepreneurial Tech Commercialization |
Norris Krueger Brian Cummings |
Entrepreneurship Northwest and Max Planck Institute |
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The Diffusion of Innovation in Genetic Science |
Margaret Clements |
Indiana University |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
2:45 pm |
Management of Innovation |
The Management of Projects by Program Officers on Development of Systems and Technology for Advanced Measurement and Analysis |
Shin’ichi Kato |
Japan Science and Technology Agency |
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A Change Management Perspective on Government-University-Industry Cooperative Research Centers |
Jeffrey Alexander |
SRI International |
Building Knowledge |
Sarfraz Mian |
SUNY Oswego |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
4:30 pm |
Intellectual Property and Innovation |
Imitate to Innovate: Empirical Evidence on Germany’s Successful Copy of the Bayh-Dole Act |
Alexander Starnecker |
University of Augsburg |
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What Do Companies Perceive as the Benefit of Locating in a University Technology Incubator? Data from the NC State Technology Incubator |
Dallas Wood |
RTI International |
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Development of Intellectual Property Management Scorecard at the Individual Laboratory Level |
So Young Sohn |
Yonsei University |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
4:30 pm |
Issues in Technology Transfer Roundtable |
Academic and Industry Scientists and University Technology Transfer |
Fiona Murray |
MIT |
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University Technology Transfer in Europe |
David Audretsch |
Indiana University |
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Faculty Entrepreneurship |
Shanti Agung
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Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
4:30 pm |
Commerce and Academic Faculty: Understanding and Assessing the Industry Relationships of Professors |
Industrial Activity of Foreign Born Scientists in Research Extensive Universities |
Monica Gaughan
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University of Georgia |
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Interdisciplinary and Industry Network Ties of Scientists Engaged in Emerging Technology Research |
Julia Melkers |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Politics and Industry: How the Political Attitudes and Science Values of Commercially Active Academic Faculty Differ from Others |
Barry Bozeman |
University of Georgia |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
4:30 pm |
Social Entrepreneurship |
PlayPumps International: A Simple Way to Obtain Clean Water |
Peter Stanwick |
Auburn University |
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Mental Models in Social Entrepreneurship |
Norris Krueger
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Max Planck Institute of Economics |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
4:30 pm |
Private-Sector Entrepreneurship |
Cost-Reducing R&D with Spillovers and Trade |
Rajeev Goel |
Illinois State University |
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Technology and R&D Organizations: Toward a Comprehensive Theory |
Maureen McArthur Hart |
George Washington University |
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R&D (Re) location and Offshore Outsourcing: A Management Perspective |
Mariagrazia Squicciarini |
VVT Technical Research Centre of Finland |
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Session |
Paper Title |
Author(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
4:30 pm |
Academic Entrepreneurship |
Completing the Technology Transfer Process: The IPOs and M&As of Biotech Spin-Offs |
Silvio Vismara |
University of Bergamo |
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A Path Model of Organizational Decision-Making on Membership |
Drew Rivers |
North Carolina State University |
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Creative Destruction: Entrepreneurship Centers and the Building of Entrepreneurial Universities |
Peter Gianiodis |
Clemson University |
6:00 pm |
Adjourn; Buses Depart for Hotels |
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