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Technology transfer offices as boundary spanners in the pre- process
Over the past decades, universities have increasingly become ambidextrous organizations reconciling scientific and commercial missions. In order to manage this ambidexterity, technology transfer offices (TTOs) were established in most universities. This paper studies a specific, often implemented, b...
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2014
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| 100 | |a Huyghe, Annelore | ||
| 245 | |a Technology transfer offices as boundary spanners in the pre- process |c the case of a hybrid model / Huyghe, Annelore. | ||
| 260 | |c 2014 | ||
| 300 | |a 289-307 | ||
| 520 | |a Over the past decades, universities have increasingly become ambidextrous organizations reconciling scientific and commercial missions. In order to manage this ambidexterity, technology transfer offices (TTOs) were established in most universities. This paper studies a specific, often implemented, but rather understudied type of TTO, namely a hybrid TTO model uniting centralized and decentralized levels. Employing a qualitative research design, we examine how and why the two TTO levels engage in diverse boundary spanning activities to help nascent spin-off companies move through the pre-spin-off process. Our research identifies differences in the types of boundary spanning activities that centralized and decentralized TTOs perform and in the parties they engage with. We find geographical, technological and organizational proximity to be important antecedents of the TTOs | ||
| 650 | |a Nascent Spin-Offs | ||
| 650 | |a Proximity | ||
| 650 | |a Boundary Spanning | ||
| 650 | |a Technology Transfer Office | ||
| 650 | |a Spin-Off Entrepreneurship | ||
| 773 | |a Small Business Economics |d August | ||
| 999 | |c 41689 |d 41689 | ||