STI Review [electronic resource] : Special Issue on 'Fostering High-tech Spin-offs':No. 26 Volume 2000 Issue 1
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2001.
 Universities, public research institutions and governments across the OECD are extremely interested in fostering spin-offs from their research base. What drives the interest in this form of technology transfer? How can institutions and governments increase the number of new firms created? What are reasonable expectations to have about the frequency of new firm creation? What will new firms bring to an institution, to a region and a country? The papers in this volume attempt to bring the facts about spin-offs from public research to light. Universities and research institutions are more entrep
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""Foreword""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction: The New Spin on Spin-offs""; ""Topics covered in this issue""; ""The importance of research-based spin-offs""; ""Lessons for policy""; ""Generating Spin-offs: Evidence from Across the OECD""; ""I.  Introduction""; ""II.  Definition of Spin-offs""; ""Table 1.  Proposed country definitions of public spin-offs""; ""Table 2.  Defining characteristics of spin-offs""; ""III.  Public Sector Spin-off Survey Results""; ""Availability of spin-off data by country""; ""Table 3.  Availability of data on spin-offs""; ""National spin-off counts""
""Table 4.  Preliminary expert estimations of the frequency of corporate spin-offs""""Table 5.  Licences and options executed, 1998""; ""Figure 1.  Australian research spin-off formation, 1971-2000""; ""Figure 2.  Belgian university spin-off formation, 1979-99""; ""Figure 3.  Canadian university spin-off formation, 1962-99""; ""Table 6.  French spin-off formation to 1998""; ""Figure 4.  Finnish VTT spin-off formation, 1979-99""; ""Figure 5.  German spin-off firms from university and non-university research institutes, 1990-97""
""Table 7.  Number of firms founded and research scientists at universities and non-university...""""Figure 6.  Spin-off firms under the Research Council of Norway, 1996-98""; ""Figure 7.  Number of firms wholly or partially owned by UK HEIs""; ""Figure 8.  AUTM start-up formation for North America, 1994-98""; ""Institutional spin-off counts""; ""Table 8.  Spin-off data from two Canadian universities""; ""Benchmarking public spin-off counts""; ""Table 9.  Comparison of spin-off formation across the OECD""; ""Figure 9.  Rates of spin-off formation in selected OECD countries""
""IV.  Spin-off Financing, Life Cycle and Specialisation""""Spin-off financing""; ""Relationship to parent institution""; ""Spin-off lifecycle""; ""Figure 10.  Company size of Canadian university spin-offs""; ""Figure 11.  Size of German academic spin-offs at start-up and in 1996""; ""Table 10.  Distribution of French spin-offs by number of employees""; ""Figure 12.  Number of employees at Canadian university-based spin-offs""; ""Table 11.  Sales of Canadian academic spin-offs according to their status""; ""Table 12.  Annual sales and jobs figures for selected Canadian university spin-offs""
""Table 13.  Percentage of academic start-ups with a product on the market, 1997""""Sectoral specialisation""; ""Table 14.  Percentage of new products and processes based on recent academic research in seven industries""; ""Table 15.  Sectoral distribution of Australian university spin-offs""; ""Table 16.  Sectoral distribution of Canadian university spin-offs""; ""Table 17.  Sectoral distribution of Finnish VTT spin-offs, 1980-99""; ""Table 18.  Spin-offs from the French CNRS, by sector""; ""Table 19.  Areas of expertise of HEI-owned spin-off companies in the United Kingdom""
""Future data collection needs""
 Universities, public research institutions and governments across the OECD are extremely interested in fostering spin-offs from their research base. What drives the interest in this form of technology transfer? How can institutions and governments increase the number of new firms created? What are reasonable expectations to have about the frequency of new firm creation? What will new firms bring to an institution, to a region and a country? The papers in this volume attempt to bring the facts about spin-offs from public research to light. Universities and research institutions are more entrep
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