Perspectives of University-Industry technology transfer in African emerging economies: Evaluating the Nigerian scenario via a data envelopment approach
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/10/286" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/10/286</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8100286" target="_blank" >10.3390/socsci8100286</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Perspectives of University-Industry technology transfer in African emerging economies: Evaluating the Nigerian scenario via a data envelopment approach
Original language description
All of Africa's emerging economies are faced with developmental challenges, which can be partly ameliorated using effective University-Industry technology transfer. While technology transfer remains at the infant stage, sparsely documented, and with no complex ongoing processes in many African societies, Universities in Africa are making efforts in University-Industry collaborations aimed at bringing significant improvements to the continent in a bid to drive national innovation and regional economic development. In this paper, we attempt to evaluate the progress made so far by Nigerian Universities in technological innovation transfer, in order to suggest ways for possible future progress. To do this, crucial technology transfer resource factors (inputs), namely, the number of linkage projects funded by the "African Research Council" (ARC), consortium membership of the University's technology transfer office, and the number of doctoral staff at the University's technology transfer office, were checked against a set of performance measures (number of executed licenses, amount of licensing royalty income, number of spin-offs created, and the number of spin-offs created with university equity), using data envelopment analysis and multiple regression, respectively. Results suggest that Universities that possess better resource factors reported higher outputs on most of the performance indicators applied. In addition, it was observed that Universities with greater ability to effectively transfer knowledge had higher technology commercialization performance and financial sustainability. The implication of these results is that Universities in Africa need to develop in line with the technology transfer resource (input) factors suggested within this study, as this is the way to go for better performance. © 2019 by the authors.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Social Sciences
ISSN
2076-0760
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Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
"Article number 286"
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85075575901