Maksim Belitski, Loyola University New Orleans

James Cunningham, Newcastle University

Riccardo Fini, University of Bologna

Simon Mosey, University of Nottingham

Phillip Phan, Johns Hopkins University

The Journal of Technology Transfer is pleased to introduce a new Special Collection on Technology Transfer through Collaboration: Bridging Academia, Policy, and Practice. The collection invites submissions that examine technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and innovation through collaborations between academic researchers and non-academic actors in policy and practice.

Timely and high-quality research on technology transfer often emerges from close interaction between academics, practitioners, and policymakers. Such collaborations can provide access to emerging phenomena, reveal underexplored mechanisms, and generate insights that may not be visible through conventional data sources or established theoretical lenses alone. The aim of this Special Collection is to support rigorous research that draws on boundary-spanning collaborations to advance scholarship on technology transfer while also generating meaningful implications for policy and practice.

The Special Collection particularly welcomes papers co-authored by academics and non-academic actors, including but not limited to technology transfer professionals, policymakers, entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, industry experts, platform managers, R&D managers, and innovation intermediaries. Such collaborations provide unique insights to policy and practice environments, enhance access to data, expand the contextual reach of empirical work, and address fundamental questions through a diversity of collaborative perspectives. Submissions should use collaborative engagement to develop new theory, enrich empirical analysis, access distinctive data, and address important questions in technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Contributions should combine methodological rigor with practical and policy-relevant insight and demonstrate novel, impactful contributions to technology transfer scholarship.

The Special Collection is intended to create a lasting foundation for cumulative scholarly development rather than a one-off set of papers. The Journal of Technology Transfer remains firmly committed to its identity as a double-blind, rigorously peer-reviewed academic journal. Submissions must meet the journal's standards for theoretical contribution, methodological rigor, empirical credibility, and clarity of argument. The goal of this Special Collection is not to relax scholarly standards, but to broaden the range of relevant questions, data sources, contexts, and perspectives that inform high-quality research in technology transfer.

Potential topics

• Papers co-authored by academics and non-academic actors, including technology transfer professionals, policymakers, entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, industry experts, platform managers, R&D managers, and innovation intermediaries
• Technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and innovation through boundary-spanning collaborations
• Development of new theory through collaborative engagement
• Enrichment of empirical analysis using collaborative perspectives
• Access to distinctive data through academic-non-academic partnerships
• Addressing important questions in technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and innovation from multiple collaborative perspectives

Timeline

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