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This article reviews academic entrepreneurship; and the transfer of knowledge and technology through strategies to market research, development and innovation results from universities in Colombia. It approached technology-based companies and actors of the National Science and Technology System; data from Colciencias, and "Spin-Off" Colombia. It presents quantitative results on secondary sources, processed in IBM SPSS. 3% of the reports are products of technological development; in higher education institutions, the entrepreneurial products are the 0.00095% of the all products. The commitment of the university with its entrepreneurial mission is incipient: it is necessary to deepen to know the model of creation of companies based on research, adequate for Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to describe and comprehend the motivations of teacher-researchers in two public state universities in Mexico to participate in knowledge and technology transfer processes. Ten subjects interested in knowledge transfer processes were considered for this study; in-depth interviews were conducted to understand their readiness to produce and transfer knowledge. The results reveal that subjects develop a disposition and the skills to seek changes in social reality based on values such as altruism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last tunes a growing emphasis exists in the commercialization of the university investigation, in particular, through the creation of companies (spin-offs). However, the phenomena that the concept of university spinoff is about embracing are not homogeneous. For this reason, it seems convenient to identify the different realities that it includes organizing them by means of typologies. The present work analyzes this question by means of a revision of the existent literature, and it proposes a classUl cation that distinguishes four spin-offs types: independent, linked, joint venture and subsidiary. The three key approaches used to distinguish these four types of university spin-offs are: the implication or not of the investigator as entrepreneur, the nature of the transferred knowledge and the participation of external partners in the new company. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]