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The latest email from the Reseau Innovation Network's Innovation Newsletter out of Canada and the D.C.-based Public Forum Institute's National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship called to SSTI's attention two websites with online access to more than 60 academic research papers of potential interest and importance to those interested in encouraging economic growth through innovation, technology commercialization, entrepreneurship and public policy.

SSTI will highlight selected papers in Digest articles over the coming weeks, but links to all of the works and brief introductions to the sites are provided below.

Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID) 2005 Winter Conference

Link to papers: http://www.druid.dk/ocs/papers.php?first_letter=all&cf=2

DRUID's latest meeting in January once again meets expectations as one of Europe's leading conferences for advancing the latest thinking on tech-based economic development issues. The link above provides access to abstracts and full PDFs for the 54 papers presented this year. Selected titles include:

• A Life Cycle for Clusters? Agglomerations, Bifurcations and Adaptation
• Factors of Regional Innovativeness - An Empirical Analysis of German Patents for Five Industries
• Analysis and Measurement of Interactions in Innovation Systems: A Corporative and Sectoral Approach
• The Role of Universities in Cluster Emergence Process - Comparative Case Study of the Cambridge Cluster and an Emerging Biomedico Cluster in North Jutland
• Market Creation Processes and Market Intermediaries for Emerging Technologies
• The Production of Complementarities among R&D Activities and External Collaborations: A Knowledge-based View
• What is the Role of Social Capital for Regional Development? A Study of the Industrial Forum of the Region Aalborg Cooperation
• Does Industrial Relevance in Public Science Come at the Expense of Basic Research? Revisiting Tradeoffs in University Research
• A Matter of Life and Death: Innovation and Firm Survival
• Investigation of University Industry Technology Transfer Case: A Conceptual and Methodological Approach

Conference on Institutionalizing Entrepreneurship Education by Linking It to University Technology/Knowledge Transfer

Link to papers: http://entrepreneurship.eller.arizona.edu/events/2005/knowledge_transfer_papers.aspx

The Karl Eller Center at the University of Arizona partnered with the Kauffman Foundation to hold this January event. Several of the authors of the 10 commissioned papers may be familiar to Digest readers: David Audretsch, David Mowery, Donald Siegel, and Jerry and Marie Thursby.

• Analyzing the Effectiveness of University Technology Transfer: Implications for Entrepreneurship Education
• The Bayh-Dole Act and High-Technology Entrepreneurship in U.S. Universities: Chicken, Egg, or Something Else?
• Commercializing University Research Systems in Economic Perspective: A View From the Demand Side
• Curiosity-Driven Research and University Technology Transfer
• An Integrated Model of University Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Education
• Introducing Technology Entrepreneurship to Graduate Education: An Integrative Approach
• The Irrationality of Speculative Gene Patents
• The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Technological Diffusion
• Organizational Modularity and Intra-University Relationships Between Entrepreneurship Education and Technology Transfer
• Pros and Cons of Faculty Participation in Licensing