Entrepreneurship among scientists will be stimulated by helping young Ph.D.s set up spin-off enterprises, giving tax breaks to companies that invest in R&D, encouraging public-private research collaboration, and cutting red tape.
Table 12 Features of spin-off enterprises Industries Average number of years since establishment Average number of employees Average turnover (thousands of euro) Electronics 7.2 9.2 1,329.40 Energy and environment 6.3 6.5 372.80 ICT 8.1 9.3 1,069.60 Life sciences 7.3 10.2 701.20 Nanotech 5.5 9.5 402.70 Average 6.9 8.9 775.14.
While China is still striving for building up effective IP protection system, in the current situation the companies that more effectively participated in Triple Helix interactions are the university spin-off enterprises and the firms in science parks.
But then Andrew Larpent is in many ways a surprising person: after 25 years in the army, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel and commanding an infantry battalion in the first Gulf war, he has gone on to lead for the past decade what is perhaps the most successful spin-off social enterprise in the public services.
The problem of studying the development of small enterprises (spin-off) created with the participation of universities, and cooperating with them is given the highest priority in the literature.
A spin-off from CoreSystems, a Swiss mobile enterprise platform provider (backed by SAP), it also has operations in Zurich and Berlin, but has a global footprint, as you can see.
Lucent, based in Murray Hill, N.J., plans to spin off the enterprise networks group, which assembles telephone systems and data networks for businesses, in September.
As part of its restructuring plans the company spun off its enterprise networks group, which began trading independently last week under the name Avaya.
Under the terms of the deal, HP Enterprise will spin off the enterprise services unit, which will then merge with Computer Sciences in an all-stock transaction.
