Institutional Evolution and the Collaborative Development of Technology Transfer Capabilities. (November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Donegan, Mary; Feldman, Maryann
• Is Part Of: International regional science review. Volume 45:Number 6(2022)
• Page Start: 636
• Page End: 662
• Publication Date: 2022-11
• Subjects: urban and regional economic development -- economic growth and development -- policy and applications -- universities -- organizational change -- research and development -- innovation -- other policy and applications -- policy and applications -- university technology transfer -- TULCO -- regional consortium; Regional economics -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Periodicals; Regionalism -- Periodicals; 338.9
• DOI: 10.1177/0160017620922886
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1552-6925

Abstract

This article examines the development of university technology transfer operations at the Research Triangle region's three universities. Organized to commercialize university-based scientific inventions, this expertise was essential to university engagement in the region's long-term development. Early collaborative efforts to jump-start technology transfer in the region were promoted via a joint licensing consortium. Those early efforts—and their eventual devolution to the universities—are critical to understanding the region's subsequent development. We document a process of competing institutional logics and institutional interpretation, with officials from each campus continually interpreting the collaborative's value against their own institution's evolving needs.