STI Review: Special Issue on 'Fostering High-tech Spin-offs: A Public Strategy for Innovation' No. 26 Volume 2000 Issue 1

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 Annotation 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 incr