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The Role of Potential Licensee Availability in Facilitating Commercialization of Academic Research Results

Year: 2015

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper mainly focuses on investigating the effects of the availability of potential licensee as a measure of academic commercialization. Moreover, a qualitative research method is adopted based on the case study approach. In order to explore the issues of this study, ten face-to-face interviews were conducted. The respondents were chosen among inventors, researchers, academic entrepreneurs and Technology Transfer Office staffs in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). The researcher used content-analysis approach to analyse the data obtained from the interviews. The results showed that the availability of potential licensee and awareness of the invention market potential facilitated the invention commercialization.

Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.372

Authors: Tayebeh Khademi, Kamariah Ismail, Chew Tin Lee, Maryam Garmsari

Institution: University of Technology Malaysia

Language: English

Topic: Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2052923022

FWCI: 5.402

Cites: 25

Cited by: 9

Related to: 10