This volume reflects on how government, business and academia influence technology transfer in different countries and how the infrastructure of a country enhances technology and contributes to each country's overall economy. Interpreting and adopting the processes of technology transfer and commercialization - or, building innovative ecosystems - is critical to seeing success in this digital age.

Global in its scope of solving market economy problems, for this volume the Institute has focused its lens on accelerated knowledge-based development. Here, scholars from 13 countries come together to critique technology transfer from each of their respective nations.
The results of their contributions lend innovative insight to exactly how different nations are working to maximize technology transfer and commercialization in uncertain times.
Those with an interest in commercialization and technology transfer, from students to scholars, practitioners to policymakers, will find this important collection of great value.

CONTENTS
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: technology transfer in global perspectives - issues for the twenty-first century
1 Technology commercialization in Chinese universities: an innovation system approach
2 Perspectives on technology transfer and commercialization in Africa: a focus on Kenya
3 Some UK experience of technology transfer and commercialization
4 A stress test for creative and innovative management: entrepreneurship in a war zone
5 The land of milk, honey and ideas: what makes Israel a hotbed for entrepreneurship and innovation?
6 Disclosing activities by inventors and technology commercialization: a case study of a Japanese company
7 Creative model of science park development: case study on Daedeok Innopolis, Korea
8 Malta: a Mediterranean island state, its university, and its future
9 Technology transfer in Mexico: trends in public policies and the program at Monterrey International City of Knowledge
10 Technology transfer and the development of new technology-based firms: Polish perspectives and a case study on nanotechnology
11 Portugal at the crossroads of change, facing the 'shock of the new': people, knowledge and ideas fostering the social fabric to facilitate the concentration of knowledge-integrated communities
12 Technology transfer and commercialization in Russia
13 The experience in the United States: a university perspective