Determinants and public policy implications of academic-industry knowledge transfer in life sciences: a review and a conceptual framework

There is a considerable interest of scholars in benefits and challenges arising from involvement of academic researchers and their institutions in knowledge transfer activities with the business sector. The emerging questions have resulted in a number of studies, yielding rich but mixed findings. The purpose of this paper is to systematically review this body of investigative work, with a particular emphasis on life sciences. Based on the systematic analysis and synthesis of 135 articles published between 1980 and 2014, we discuss the most interesting findings for each of the six identified principal academic-industry research topics: involvement predictors and motivators, role of incentives, institutional performance determinants, knowledge transfer institutionalization, relationship with scientific output and impact on open science. Whereas many studies reach consensus regarding the particular personal and contextual predictors of researchers’ knowledge transfer involvement, we also find substantial evidence that depending on empirical setting, variables such as scientific productivity and institutional technology transfer support policies can act both as enablers and inhibitors in the process. We find no straightforward evidence regarding the role of the size, age and structure of technology transfer offices in the knowledge transfer performance of academic institutions. We also show that most studies agree that engagement in knowledge transfer activities does not negatively affect the researchers’ scientific output. Yet, it is less clear to what extent university-industry interactions can be detrimental for the norms of open science. We draw several policy implications for academic settings and emphasize interesting avenues for further research in this field.     

The impact of cybercrime on businesses: a novel conceptual framework and its application to Belgium

Despite growing indications and fears about the impact of cybercrime, only few academic studies have so far been published on the topic to complement those published by consultancy firms, cybersecurity companies and private institutes. The review of all these studies shows that there is no consensus on how to define and measure cybercrime or its impact. Against this background, this article pursues two aims: 1) to develop a thorough conceptual framework to define and operationalize cybercrime affecting businesses as well as its impact, harms, and costs; and 2) to test this conceptual framework with a survey of businesses based in Belgium, which was administered in summer 2016 and elicited 310 valid responses. Consisting of five types, our conceptualization of cybercrime is, unlike others, technology-neutral and fully compatible with the legislation. Drawing on Greenfield and Paoli’s Harm Assessment Framework (The British Journal of Criminology, 53, 864–885, 2013), we understand impact as the overall harm of cybercrime, that is, the “sum” of the harms to material support, or costs, and the harms to other interest dimensions i.e., functional (or operational) integrity, reputation and privacy. Whereas we ask respondents to provide a monetary estimate of the costs, respondents are invited to rate the severity of the harms on the basis of an ordinal scale. We claim that this “double track” gives a fuller, more valid assessment of cybercrime impact. Whereas most affected businesses do not report major costs or harm, 15% to 20% of them rate the harms to their internal operational activities as serious or more, with cyber extortion regarded as most harmful.     

Making the World Health Organization work: a legal framework for universal access to the conditions for health.

Improving global health conditions has been one of the most important and difficult challenges for the world community. Despite concerted efforts by international organizations, like the World Health Organization, great disparities in health conditions remain between developed and developing countries, as well as within those countries. The World Health Organization has achieved some successes through its Health for All strategy; however, it can and should encourage member nations to enact national and international laws to protect and promote the health status of their populations. A comparison to the lawmaking efforts in other areas by international organizations indicates that WHO may have the authority and the means to institutionalize efforts to improve global health conditions.     

公共卫生框架下的卫生监督及其法制工作内涵简

卫生监督工作是公共卫生事业的一个组成部分,在实现公共卫生目标的同时,应当具备＂自我进化＂的能力。这种能力是公共卫生事业不断向高水平发展的重要因素,其动力来源在很大程度上依赖于卫生监督法制工作在正确的方向上有效运转。传统视角下对卫生监督法制工作内涵的解读有其局限性,本文在把握卫生监督与公共卫生之间的关系,以及重述、分析卫生监督过程的基础上,从解读立法、审视立法、反馈立法三个新的视角尝试探讨卫生监督法制工作的内涵。     

Legal, ethical, and conceptual bottlenecks to the development of useful genomic tests

This article discusses advances in genomic research in the context of the debate surrounding gene patent rights and the limited rights of patient-participants in translational research. In addition, the author explores statutory and regulatory hurdles to advances in disease diagnosis, such the Bayh-Dole Act, Medicare Legislation, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The author questions the effectiveness of increasingly commercialized academic research and the limited success of the private sector in genomic research. The author concludes that future genomic research will require significantly increased patient participation, which may necessitate a reshaping of the pharmaceutical approach to medicine and the limited stake that patients have in the breakthroughs developed through their participation in the process.     

浅述检察工作保障司法公正的作用

党的十六大报告提出,“社会主义司法制度必须保障在全社会实现公平和正义”。公平和正义历来是司法机关的灵魂和生命,也是司法工作的价值取向和追求目标,但长期以来不管是学术界还是实务界,对司法公正的研究和讨论往往较多地集中于法院的审判活动,而对检察工作在实现司法公正中     

Against the one-way-street: analyzing knowledge transfer from industry to science

Knowledge flows from industry to science have mostly been neglected by empirical studies. This work aims at contributing to this issue by analyzing differences in the factors that influence the probability of knowledge transfer within industry and from industry to science in the biotechnology sector. In order to model these knowledge flows we conduct a citation analysis on the basis of patent data. We then estimate a weighted bivariate probit model on the citation probability of industry and science on the basis of a combined sample of citing and cited patent pairs and an equal number of control patent pairs. The empirical results suggest that there are considerable differences in the citation probability. Cultural closeness for instance has a positive effect on the citation probability from industry to industry while the citation probability of scientific institutions is not affected by cultural distance.     

From latent to emergent entrepreneurship: the knowledge spillover construction circle

The Journal of Technology Transfer - The process that turns knowledge into innovation is highly ambiguous and complex. This study merges economic and management perspectives to extend the knowledge...     

论跨境环境损害民事责任的法律适用——以冲突规范为研究对象

作为统一实体法规范的国际环境民事责任公约在高度危险活动领域如核能利用、石油污染等发挥着巨大作用,但对于一般环境损害未做任何规定,因此,需要由国内冲突法规范加以调整。由于传统的调整方法——侵权行为地法很难解决当今环境损害中的所有问题,在继续追求冲突法正义的同时也应顾及到索赔主体实体利益的保护,于是,有必要考虑新的系属公式如当事人合意选择的法律、对受害人有利的法律等。但仍应赋予侵权行为地法最重要的地位,同时采用选择性冲突规则。     

关于新时期社区群众工作方法论创新的思考

做好新时期的社区群众工作,是公安基层基础工作的着力点。但由于受各种主、客因素的影响,各地基层派出所社区民警仍存在着与做好群众工作不相适应的问题。要做好新时期的社区群众工作,方式方法至关重要,因而社区民警必须创新并科学运用社区群众工作方法。同时要在工作实践中坚定群众工作理念,找准自己在社区群众工作中的履职定位,不断提升自身的社区群众工作能力和素质。要加强对社区民警的培训和评聘考核激励,切实健全一套社区群众工作的长效机制。     

《京都议定书》框架下促进我国企业履行环境责任的思考

<京都议定书>是各成员国为应对全球变暖达成温室气体减排承诺的环境协议,我国作为发展中国家在<京都议定书>谈判的第三阶段将面临减排的压力,温室气体减排主要取决于相关行业的发展和企业环境责任的承担情况.企业的环境责任作为企业承担社会责任的组成部分,在理论上刚刚兴起.培育企业环境责任意识,完善企业环境责任理论,探索企业环境责任承担相应机制以实现企业的经济效益增长与社会环境效益的双赢.     

Underused potentials for criminology: Applying the sociology of knowledge to terrorism

Knowledge has for a long time been a central category in criminological thought, the etiological and reaction sides alike. On the etiological side, rational choice, neutralization techniques, the learning and unlearning of motivations, practices and codes, and, lately, efforts toward a cognitive criminology exemplify approaches that refer implicitly or explicitly to ‘knowledge’. Yet, with the exception of George Herbert Mead’s work, the sociology of knowledge has barely been explicitly used. This paper argues that the conscious consideration of the sociology of knowledge, including neo-Durkheimian, neo-Marxist, and neo-Weberian traditions, promises great benefit to criminological thought. Such consideration sheds light on the distribution across time and space of cognitive and normative tools that contribute to patterns of norm breaking behavior. A brief overview of the implicit use of ‘knowledge’ in criminological theory is followed by an elaboration of the potential benefits for criminology from incorporating leading traditions in the sociology of knowledge. The article concludes with an illustration for the case of terrorism as it rises simultaneously, but seeks distinct targets, across regions of the world.     

对侵犯著作权罪立法的几点思考

实体法上,侵犯著作权罪的构成要件中“以营利为目的”不必要,以行为人侵犯著作权的违法所得数额作为定罪量刑的主要标准不利于对侵犯著作权犯罪的有效打击。法定刑的设定不够合理。程序法上侵犯著作权罪是否属于亲告罪类型的自诉案件不太明确,文章认为设定成刑法上的亲告罪还不如设定成为刑诉法第170条(三)所规定的可予自诉的案件。