Supply chain management is in the industrial engineering management and operations management disciplines. It involves product procurement of raw materials, production, storage, distribution, wholesales, and retail sales. The COVID19 pandemic has the added challenge of ...

Africa has not invested enough in its healthcare system, and China has been investing in and financing much of Africa’s transportation system. Many African countries’ fragile health and transportation systems have been further weakened by ...

Creative industries are industries focused on the creation and exploitation of intellectual property, including art, fashion design, and related creative services, such as advertisement and sales.  During a trip to Burkina Faso in West Africa, ...

Research and technology commercialization at research-intensive universities has helped to develop provincial economies resulting in university startups, the growth of other new companies and associated employment. University technology transfer offices (TTOs) oversee the process of ...

There is a concentrated number of potential women entrepreneurs of diverse races among faculty in the United States’ Historically Black Colleges and Universities (known as HBCUs and are called ‘Black Colleges’ herein). This study describes ...

Technology commercialization managers are often faced with (1) training inventors on intellectual property (IP) laws and IP policies, (2) evaluating invention disclosures for patentability and marketability, (3) drafting and implementing invention marketing plans, and (4) ...

Since 1980 universities have been able to commercialize inventions that their faculty researchers create as per the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act (P.L. 96-517). Research universities can now own and license these inventions to small and well ...

Frugal innovation is the practice whereby the rich learns from innovations developed in poorcountries, and there is purportedly a current rivalry between India and China in the frugalinnovation arena. This research advocates that the concept ...

University technology transfer is growing in China and is vital to China’s innovation andintellectual property program. This paper provides a literature review used to create atheoretical framework for explaining conflicts between university technology transferparticipants. Economic ...

As of 2015, millennials (born in the 1990’s) became the largest population in the workplace – and are still growing. Studies indicate millennials are tech savvy but are lagging in the exercise of digital responsibility. ...

Emerging Research lnstitutions (ERls) can benefit from patent licensing revenues from the transfer f patented technologies into the commercial marketplace because th se added revenues can help research institutions become more sustainable financially. However, many ...

This study describes the development of a university technology transfer supply chain network sustainability tool that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) can use to become more self-reliant financially. HBCUs lag behind their peer non-HBCUs ...

With respect to university technology transfer, the purpose of this paper is to examine the literature focused on the relationship between university research faculty and technology transfer office staff. We attempt to providegreater understanding of ...

Between 2005 and 2011, there was no substantial growth in licenses executed by university technology transferoffices. Since the passage of the Bayh Dole Act of 1980, universities have owned technological inventionsafforded by federal research funding. ...

In October 2003, the FTC issued a report entitled “To Promote Innovation: The Proper Balance of Competitionand Patent Law and Policy” focused on the patent law system. A second report by both agencies is forthcoming ...

"[I]n difficult economic times, political stakeholders in the technology transfer process usually view success in economic impact terms, and often from short-term and parochial perspectives - how many jobs in my state next year?" Although ...

In 1995, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission adopted new guidelines for those wishing to license intellectual property rights without violating antitrust laws. Designed to provide clarity, theseguidelines instead breed confusion because ...

We address the issue of consumer privacy against the backdrop of the national priority of maintaining global leadership in artificial intelligence, the ongoing research in Artificial Cognitive Assistants, and the explosive growth in the development ...

One component of the newly implemented European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a revision of a 1995 directive, is mandatory breach notification. The US has no such federal law. This means companies must satisfy ...

But can a 16th-century political treatise provide any guidance on today’s competitive environment? There are two camps among scholars regarding the relevancy of Niccolò Machiavelli’s book The Prince (Machiavelli, 1992) to modern day management and ...

When there is an economic downturn, cities are forced to develop a strategy to revitalize. Increasing the transfer of high technology into the marketplace stimulates the economy. High tech industries are industries that include relatively ...