Bridging the mutual knowledge gap: Coordination and the commercialization of university science

• Main Authors: KOTHA, Reddi, GEORGE, Gerard, SRIKANTH, Kannan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Technology and Innovation; Management; Management of technology; Design/Structure; Organization and Management Theory; Higher Education; Strategic Management Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3624; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4623/viewcontent/bridgingthemutual.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We examine why commercialization of interdisciplinary research, especially from distant scientific domains, is different from commercialization of inventions from specialized or proximate domains. We argue that anticipated coordination costs arising from the need to transfer technology to licensee f...