Technology Transfer through Collaboration: Bridging Academia, Policy, and Practice

Éditeurs invités

• Maksim Belitski, Loyola University New Orleans
• James Cunningham, Newcastle University
• Riccardo Fini, University of Bologna
• Simon Mosey, University of Nottingham
• Phillip H. Phan, Johns Hopkins University

Synthèse

This special collection seeks research on technology transfer and innovation that emerges from collaborations between academic researchers and practitioners, policymakers, or other non-academic stakeholders. The collection particularly welcomes papers co-authored by academics working alongside technology transfer professionals, innovators, investors, and other industry experts, as such partnerships offer unique access to emerging phenomena and practical contexts.

The collection aims to publish rigorous, peer-reviewed scholarship that leverages collaborative engagement to develop new theories, access distinctive data, and address important questions in technology transfer while maintaining the journal's standards for methodological rigor and empirical credibility. Papers should demonstrate how boundary-spanning collaboration contributes novel, impactful insights relevant to both scholarship and practice.

Thèmes proposés

• Technology transfer and collaboration between academics and non-academic actors
• Entrepreneurship and innovation emerging from academic-practitioner-policymaker interactions
• Boundary-spanning collaborations in technology transfer research
• Co-authored research involving technology transfer professionals, policymakers, entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, industry experts, platform managers, R&D managers, and innovation intermediaries
• Development of new theory through collaborative engagement
• Access to distinctive data and empirical analysis enriched by collaboration
• Policy and practice-relevant insights from technology transfer scholarship
• Methodological rigor combined with practical applicability in innovation research