Universities are becoming a vital part of national and international economies.
That involvement has taken three forms.
First, there is the general hum of industrial-research contracts. Universities have carried out research for firms for so many years that this activity has simply become business as usual.
Second, there is the generation of spin-off companies, licenses, and patents. This is the kind of involvement which preoccupied universities in the 1990s and 2000s.
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Author: Nigel Thrift
