Capitalizing Knowledge: New Intersections of Industry and Academia

Capitalizing Knowledge explores the academic–industrial interface in a sustained and critical analysis, drawing on expertise in a wide range of disciplines from the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. Using an international focus, the book examines the range of experiences, problems, and solutions that different countries have had in managing academic–industrial links. Of key importance to policy-makers in government, academia, and industry, Capitalizing Knowledge explores the current trends as well as the commercialization of universities as they seek to capitalize their research.

The authors are part of an international research network that over the past five years has examined the capitalization of knowledge in academic–industrial relations. They provide an analysis of the institutional changes occurring today as well as an analysis of its implications. Also explored is the role of the university in economic development, the dynamics of technology transfer, and country–specific analyses of new links between industry and academia.

Henry Etzkowitz is Director of the Science Policy Institute at the State University of New York at Purchase. He is the author of the forthcoming Athena Unbound: Overcoming Barriers to Women in Science. Andrew Webster is Director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit at England's Anglia University. He is the author of Innovation and the Intellectual Property System and Building New Bases for Innovation: The Transformation of the R & D System in Post–Socialist States. Peter Healey is Director of the Science Policy Support Group in London, England.