caa a22 4500 463161351 CHVBK 20180406164748.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10734-004-7650-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10734-004-7650-4 Information, cooperation, and the blurring of boundaries - technology transfer in German and American discourses [Elektronische Daten] [Georg Krücken, Frank Meier, Andre Müller] The aim of this paper is to examine changing discursive conceptualizations of technology transfer mechanisms for speeding up innovation in Germany and the US since World War II with particular emphasis on universities. According to our analysis, the concepts of technology transfer are getting more and more complex, taking off from a linear model of innovation to a more complex model allowing for networking and entrepreneurial activities of the universities themselves. We suggest that the discourses in both countries can be framed employing three ideal-typical models: the information and documentation model, the cooperation model, and the blurring of boundaries model. In addition to these similarities, we also discuss differences that can be traced back to broader political cultures in which technology transfer is embedded. Both similarities and differences allow for a comparative perspective which is not limited to the countries analyzed here. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 comparison of US and Germany nationallicence entrepreneurial universities nationallicence innovation networks nationallicence political cultures of innovation nationallicence university-industry cooperation nationallicence Krücken Georg Science Organization, Higher Education and Science Management, German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Str. 2, 67346, Speyer, Germany aut Meier Frank Faculty of Sociology and the Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT), Bielefeld University, Universitätsstrasse 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany aut Müller Andre Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (IFQ), Bonn, Godesberger Allee 90, 53175, Bonn aut Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 53/6(2007-06-01), 675-696 0018-1560 53:6<675 2007 53 10734 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-004-7650-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-004-7650-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Krücken Georg Science Organization, Higher Education and Science Management, German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Str. 2, 67346, Speyer, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Meier Frank Faculty of Sociology and the Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT), Bielefeld University, Universitätsstrasse 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Müller Andre Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (IFQ), Bonn, Godesberger Allee 90, 53175, Bonn aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 53/6(2007-06-01), 675-696 0018-1560 53:6<675 2007 53 10734 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence SWISSBIB 351970738 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer