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Call for Papers

Technology Tr ansfer and Entrepreneurship: Cross-Nati onal Analysis

Guest Editors

*David Audretsch, **Rosa Caiazza

*Professor at Indiana University and WHU Otto Besheim School of Management** Professor at Parthenope University of Naples

Background and Special Issue PurposeThere is a growing interest among policy makers and academics in transforming results of

research activities in economic products. Literature has evidenced many factors affecting the

research and technology transfer activities of public research institutions and private firms.

These factors can interact reciprocally, causing some regions of the world to become more

dynamic in entrepreneurship (e.g., Silicon Valley) than others. In the rush to stimulate

technology transfer and entrepreneurship, policy makers often rely on the success stories and

prescriptions documented in the literature. However, international comparative studies among

different areas of the world are rare.Cross-national diversity reflects the various institutional constraints stemming from

political, legal, and cultural factors. Institutions have a unique imprint on the dynamics of

nations by creating specific advantages in the entrepreneurial activity of public research

institutes and firms aimed at commercializing their technologies. Comparing and explaining

cross-national diversity requires a detailed analysis of what guides institutions and how these

behaviors shape technology transfer and entrepreneurship within a region.

The purpose of this special issue is to bring together scholarly thought from different

disciplines to extend extant paradigms and/or to develop new theoretical frameworks. The

guest editors invite authors to submit theoretical papers, using appropriate disciple-specific

tools of analysis, that revisit and revise existing theory, assumptions, or perspectives to more

accurately reflect the challenges and realities of what we now know about factors affectingcross-national diversity in technology transfer and entrepreneurship.

Deadlines, Submission and Review Process:The Guest Editors encourage submissions of empirical and conceptual/theoretical nature,

which apply an interdisciplinary approach. Thus, also studies incorporating a sound and well-

founded mixed-method design are welcome. We would like to receive the paper before

January 31, 2015. Please submit papers to both Guest Editors using the email addresses

below. A preliminary decision on the status of submitted manuscripts will be made no later

than April 30, 2015.

Authors should indicate in the body of their email that they would like submission to be

considered for the special issue of the Journal of Technology Transfer on Technology

Transfer and Entrepreneurship: Cross-National Analysis.

Further Information:For questions regarding the content of this special issue, please contact the guest editors:

David Audretsch, Indiana University,daudrets@indiana.edu

Rosa Caiazza, Parthenope University,rosa.caiazza@uniparthenope.it

mailto:daudrets@indiana.edumailto:daudrets@indiana.edumailto:daudrets@indiana.edumailto:rosa.caiazza@uniparthenope.itmailto:rosa.caiazza@uniparthenope.itmailto:rosa.caiazza@uniparthenope.itmailto:rosa.caiazza@uniparthenope.itmailto:daudrets@indiana.edu

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