Cyclical long-term development of complex technologies: Premature expectations in nanotechnology?

After many years of tremendous growth, the patent activities in nanotechnology have slightly decreased and the growth of publication numbers in this field is slowing down. With these patterns nanotechnology exhibits typical characteristics of the cyclical de-velopment of complex science-based technologies which may be labelled double-boom development. However, the decrease of patents should not be interpreted as the end of the growth of nanotechnology, but rather as an intermediate stagnation before a second steep growth. This intermediate period will probably be short compared to other science-based technologies, as cognitive bottlenecks are largely compensated by a strong market pull and substantial public support from the science side

Wissens- und Technologietransfer in öffentlichen Forschungseinrichtungen

Der Artikel analysiert die Strukturen und Prozesse des Transfers von Wissen und Technologie in deutschen Forschungseinrichtungen und findet Ansatzpunkte für eine Intensivierung der Transfertätigkeit in der Wissenschaft.Deutschland, Wissenstransfer, Technologietransfer, Forschungsinstitut, Finanzierung

Wissens- und Technologietransfer in öffentlichen Forschungseinrichtungen

Der Artikel analysiert die Strukturen und Prozesse des Transfers von Wissen und Technologie in deutschen Forschungseinrichtungen und findet Ansatzpunkte für eine Intensivierung der Transfertätigkeit in der Wissenschaft

Governance der Kooperation heterogener Partner im deutschen Forschungs- und Innovationssystem

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Identification of university-based patents: A new large-scale approach

This paper described a method to consistently and automatically identify all university-based patents by matching the names of inventors on patent filings with authors of scientific publications. This methodological procedure can be adjusted for different pur-poses. Handling selection criteria rigorously allows us to generate a dataset of universi-ty-based patents with high precision. A less restrictive setting of selection criteria yields a higher coverage in terms of the overall picture and total numbers of academic pa-tents. Using the authors of scientific publications allows us to identify research-active staff at universities without having to continuously compile and update staff lists for comparison with inventor lists. In particular, the author lists also cover research-active staff without official teaching functions who are often not covered by the official staff lists

Zur Bedeutung der angewandten Grundlagenforschung : Ergebnisse einer schriftlichen Befragung bei Fraunhofer-Instituten

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