Beyond the Bayh-Dole Effect PDF Download

Author: Ye Jiang
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Languages : en
Pages : 250

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This dissertation seeks to identify possible factors that might explain the relative success or lack of success of efforts to commercialize university-owned inventions. The analytic framework for this study is based on an entrepreneurial theory that claims that there is no best way to manage an organization, the optimal course is contingent upon the internal structure and the external situation. A review of the relevant literature shows that there has been a continuous effort to assess internal factors such as university reputation and university initiatives or how external factors such as government policy and local geography could affect technology transfer. Despite relevance, however, no empirical studies have examined the joint impact that internal and external factors might have on technology transfer. This dissertation makes an original contribution to the literature through empirical research on the joint effect of internal and external factors on technology transfer. After providing an overview of the Bayh-Dole Act and its effects on technology transfer within the U.S. universities, the institutional context of technology transfer in China including market-oriented reforms in the public and private sector in China, and PRC law governing technology transfer are considered. An empirical study of technology transfer activities of 111 Chinese universities using a multi-level regression model is used to assess the internal and external factors that influence technology transfer in China. The implications of that analysis for university technology transfer programs in China and other countries are then considere