Assessing the impact of organizational practices on the relative productivity of university technology transfer offices: an exploratory study

TLDR: In this article, the authors present quantitative and qualitative evidence on the relative productivity of university technology transfer offices (TTOs) and conclude that the most critical organizational factors are faculty reward systems, TTO staffing/compensation practices, and cultural barriers between universities and firms.

About: This article is published in Research Policy.The article was published on 2003-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1321 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Productivity & Exploratory research.

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Table 2. Descriptive statistics and correlation coefficients for inputs and outputs of the stochastic frontier production function (Eq. (3))

Table 6. Outputs of UITT as identified by interviewees in our field study

Table 1. Characteristics of UITT stakeholders

Table 7. Aspects of relationships/networks in UITT as identified by interviewees in our field study

Table 5. Characteristics of the five universities in our field study and comparison of mean values of key variables with full statistical sample of 113 universities

Table 8. Barriers to UITT as identified by interviewees in our field study

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The authors present quantitative and qualitative evidence on the relative productivity of university technology transfer offices ( TTOs ). Their empirical results suggest that TTO activity is characterized by constant returns to scale and that environmental and institutional factors explain some of the variation in performance.