An evaluation of incentives and policies that affect research institutions' knowledge transfer activities at researcher and management level

This paper addresses the effects of incentives and policies on transferring research results from public organisations (e.g. universities, public research centres) to firms. The views in this paper are, for a large part, based on the findings of an extensive survey of academic papers and reports (this background study is available; see Section 1). By reviewing the academic literature, this paper attempts to facilitate informed policy-making by forming a link between two areas that until now have been relatively unconnected.