James J. Chrisman, Mississippi State University

Hanqing (Chevy) Fang, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Silvio Vismara, University of Bergamo

Zhenyu Wu, University of Manitoba

This special issue examines how knowledge and technology transfer operate differently across diverse organizational forms, moving beyond the assumption that transfer follows a single institutional model. The call brings together fragmented literature on intellectual property, open innovation, family businesses, and cooperative structures to develop an integrated framework for understanding ownership's role in shaping what knowledge is transferred, retained, or commercialized.

The framework organizes ownership forms along three dimensions: access (who obtains knowledge and on what terms), appropriation (who captures economic returns), and governance (who decides how knowledge is used and protected). These dimensions help explain why knowledge flows differently through universities, private firms, state-owned enterprises, cooperatives, and other organizational structures.

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Potential topics

• Locating and transitioning ownership forms: how family firms, employee-owned firms, SOEs, cooperatives, and platform cooperatives differ in what they transfer and to whom, and how transfer changes as firms professionalize, corporatize, or adopt foundation governance.
• Hybrid and intermediate arrangements: dual-class structures, stakeholder boards, patent pools, and benefit-corporation statutes, and when such hybrids are stable.
• University and public research transfer: how technology transfer offices, consortia, and open science initiatives allocate rights, and how policy reforms shift those allocations.
• AI, data, and platforms: how the three dimensions operate where the asset itself blurs conventional boundaries between use, capture, and control.
• Rights-based theory, measurement, and policy: work that formalizes the framework, specifies trade-offs, or informs organizational and policy design.

Timeline

• September 30, 2027: Full paper submission deadline

This special issue invites research examining the interconnections between innovation, technology transfer, ethical considerations, and social responsibility across multiple organizational and societal levels. The collection seeks to understand how technological advancement can be effectively managed while maintaining ethical standards and fulfilling social obligations.

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Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Submission deadline

James Cunningham, Newcastle University

Jungho Kim, Newcastle University

Chiara Marzocchi, University of Padua

Natalya Radko, Newcastle University

Technology transfer from universities and industry has been central to economic development, but rapidly advancing research and technology demand continuous evolution of university transfer structures and processes. While established frameworks have driven economic impact, emerging disruptions including AI advancement, geopolitical shifts, and intellectual property challenges are testing the resilience of current systems. This special issue examines how technology transfer systems can effectively balance economic impact with social value creation.

The issue invites exploration across multiple levels: macro-level policy frameworks and government R&D investments, meso-level institutional configurations and TTO designs, and micro-level academic entrepreneur behaviours and professional competencies. It particularly addresses how universities can simultaneously pursue economic commercialisation while meeting expectations to address societal grand challenges, and how these dual objectives create tensions requiring new business models and support structures.

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Potential topics

• Elements of technology transfer systems and contextual factors contributing to resilience in different economic scenarios
• Role of social value and prosocial behaviours of academic entrepreneurs in shaping university technology transfer structures
• Blended value creation frictions at macro, meso and micro levels for various stakeholders in research commercialisation
• Inclusivity and participation in technology transfer systems from multiple perspectives
• Public policy mixes and instruments supporting technology transfer systems for economic and social value
• Emerging university TTO configurations addressing societal challenges and geopolitical changes
• Intellectual property leakage, open science models, and evolving legal frameworks affecting value creation
• Future capabilities and competences required by technology transfer actors across sectors
• Influence of stakeholder needs and AI-driven digitalisation on university TTO methodologies and processes
• Non-market strategies driving university TTOs economic and social value creation

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Full paper submission deadline
• July 1, 2027: Final decisions on accepted papers should be completed

David B. Audretsch, Indiana University

Maribel Guerrero, Arizona State University

Wisdom Kanda, Linköping University

Magnus Klofsten, Linköping University

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Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Maksim Belitski, Loyola University New Orleans

James Cunningham, Newcastle University

Riccardo Fini, University of Bologna

Simon Mosey, University of Nottingham

Phillip H. Phan, Johns Hopkins University

This special collection seeks research on technology transfer and innovation that emerges from collaborations between academic researchers and practitioners, policymakers, or other non-academic stakeholders. The collection particularly welcomes papers co-authored by academics working alongside technology transfer professionals, innovators, investors, and other industry experts, as such partnerships offer unique access to emerging phenomena and practical contexts.

The collection aims to publish rigorous, peer-reviewed scholarship that leverages collaborative engagement to develop new theories, access distinctive data, and address important questions in technology transfer while maintaining the journal's standards for methodological rigor and empirical credibility. Papers should demonstrate how boundary-spanning collaboration contributes novel, impactful insights relevant to both scholarship and practice.

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Potential topics

• Technology transfer and collaboration between academics and non-academic actors
• Entrepreneurship and innovation emerging from academic-practitioner-policymaker interactions
• Boundary-spanning collaborations in technology transfer research
• Co-authored research involving technology transfer professionals, policymakers, entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, industry experts, platform managers, R&D managers, and innovation intermediaries
• Development of new theory through collaborative engagement
• Access to distinctive data and empirical analysis enriched by collaboration
• Policy and practice-relevant insights from technology transfer scholarship
• Methodological rigor combined with practical applicability in innovation research

Timeline

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Universities are increasingly expected to act as entrepreneurial institutions that create value beyond teaching and research through entrepreneurship education, knowledge exchange, technology transfer, academic spin-offs, and wider ecosystem engagement. However, the mechanisms through which these activities generate economic and societal value remain insufficiently understood, particularly across the full pathway from capability formation to third-mission and regional impact. Existing research often examines entrepreneurship education, academic entrepreneurship, university-industry-society collaboration, and ecosystem development in relative isolation, while practice still relies heavily on narrow indicators such as patents, licences, spin-off counts, or commercialisation income.

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Potential topics

• Entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial mindset development as intellectual capital formation
• Curriculum design, educator roles, and innovative approaches in entrepreneurship education
• Digital and AI-enabled entrepreneurship education as structural capital
• Academic entrepreneurship and the micro-foundations of entrepreneurial intellectual capital
• Technology transfer offices as intellectual capital management mechanisms
• Intellectual capital, spin-offs, and venture creation in university context
• University-industry-society collaboration and IC-mediated innovation performance
• Incubators, accelerators, science parks, and entrepreneurial support infrastructures
• Entrepreneurial ecosystems around universities and ecosystem-level intellectual capital
• Third-mission impact measurement, reporting, and evaluation through IC frameworks
• Practitioner metrics, policy frameworks, and the measurement of knowledge exchange
• Securing intellectual capital in entrepreneurial universities, including IP governance, data governance, cyber risk, and knowledge leakage
• International and comparative studies of entrepreneurial university models
• Multi-level, longitudinal, mixed-method, and engaged research designs in IC and entrepreneurship

Timeline

• June 1, 2026: Opening date for manuscript submissions
• December 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscript submissions