The Research of the Agricultural Technology Transfer

International audienceThis research looks on the technology metastasis as an important link in the innovative chain. It analyses the factors of the agricultural technology metastasis, and studies the interplay and correlation of technology itself, institute, enterprise and environment on the basis of defining the agriculture technology product and technology metastasis attribute and the connotation, aiming to give a forceful support for the construction of agriculture. The results show that the agricultural technology transfer is a multivariate sophisticated system. No positively optimal solution exits and there are only relatively suboptimal states under some certain conditions

Spinouts from academic institutions: a literature review with suggestions for further research

This paper provides a comprehensive literature review of the phenomenon of spinouts from academic institutions. We systematically identified spinout papers in key management journals, categorised the literature and critically synthesised the findings. We present the findings of each literature stream in turn and also identify inconsistencies and directions for further research. We conclude that while the early literature has been mainly atheoretical and focused on describing the phenomenon, a core group of recent studies were theory-driven