Philipp Cooke/ Claire Manning/ Rober Huggins, Cardiff (Wales/UK)
Industrial Liaison and Academic Entrepreneurship
in Wales
Pages 246 - 260
This paper summarises findings on the practices and perceptions
of industrial liaison in four universities within the federal University
of Wales system in the UK. The research, part of the European Union Targeted
Socio-Economic Research Programme study on Universities, Technology
Transfer and Spin-Off; Academic Entrepreneurship in European Regions,
involved surveys and interviews with both Industrial Liaison Officers
(ILOs) and academics in receipt of their services and non-users. Broadly
speaking ILO activity tends to be reactive and administrative. Academics
consider, often mistakenly, that ILO work should be more commercial, as
well as pressing for it to be even more strongly market-orientated.
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