Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century
An International Assessment of Knowledge Transfer Policies

Editors

Anthony Arundel, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and University of Tasmania
Anthony Arundel is a Professorial Fellow at United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology and concurrently an Adjunct Professor of Innovation at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia. He is an expert in the design, implementation and analysis of innovation surveys. His research interests cover innovation measurement, innovation methods and strategies in both the public and private sectors, knowledge transfer and environmental innovation.

Suma Athreye, Essex Business School, London
Suma Athreye is Professor of Technology Strategy at Essex Business School, London. She has worked on several areas of technology management, including research on the technology-related activities of multinational enterprises, as well as the technology licensing behaviour of firms. Her recent work has been on the incentive effect of patents on firm profits and R&D, the role of technology leadership in encouraging patenting in open innovation contexts and more recently on the barriers to the use of formal protection methods among UK firms.

Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, World Intellectual Property Organization
Sacha Wunsch-Vincent is Head of Section in the Department for Economics and Data Analytics at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva and is co-editor of the Global Innovation Index. His previous roles include being an economist at the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry, and Swiss National Science Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics (Washington, DC).

Contributors

Suma Athreye, Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, Fabio Montobbio, Lien Verbauwhede Koglin, Anthony Arundel, Bhaven Sampat, Ragan Robertson, Rosemary Wolson, Juan Yang, Intan Hamdan-Livramento, Bruno Le Feuvre, Hao Zhou, Federica Rossi, Suma Athreye, Dirk Czarnitzki, Georg Licht, Keun Lee, Hochul Shin, Fernanda De Negri, Cristiane Vianna Rauen, Baoming Chen, Can Huang, Chunyan Peng, Minglei Ding, Ning Huang, Xia Liu, Michael Kahn, Henri J. M. Theunissen, Kerry Faul, Antenor Cesar Vanderlei Corrêa, Fernanda Magalhães, Si Kyong Sung, Nordine Es-Sadki, Philippe Kuhutama Mawoko, Giancarlo Caratti, Amit Shovon Ray