InhaltsangabeIntroduction.- Forget R&D - pay my coach: young innovative companies and their relations with universities.- The Role of Research Orientation for Attracting Competitive Research Funding.- The cooperative strategy of technology transfer offices: A longitudinal study.- Academic Entrepreneurship in a Resource Constrained Environment: Diversification and Synergistic Effects.- Introducing the University of Applied Science in the Technology Transfer Process.- The role of University of Central Florida in Regional Economic Development.- The impact of technological acquisitions on innovation and quality.- Is it worth all this trouble? An assessment of the economic value of firm patent applications with shared intellectual property rights in the biotechnology industry.- External technology supply and client-side innovation.- The Enrolment in an R&D subsidy program for SME's -- evidence from South-West Germany.- Productivity gaps among European regions.- The effect of regional characteristics on the relationship between university resources and knowledge-based startup's performance.- Learning from Failure - Case Insights into a UK-India Technology Transfer Project.- The Emerging Properties of Business Models: A Systemic Approach.- Technology Transfer in the Global Automotive Value Chain: Lessons from the Turkish Automotive Industry.- Investigating the lateral migration of technology in a resource based economy: conceptual and methodological issues from a study of the Australian mining sector.- The Demand Readiness Level scale as new proposed tool to hybridize Market Pull with Technology Push approaches in Technology Transfer Practices.- Fraunhofer's Discover Markets - fostering technology transfer by integrating the layperson's perspective.- The impact of Collaborative Tools and Practices in Technology Transfer Process.