Scientists' Spinoffs The Continuation of Research by Other Means Holger BraunThrmann, Andreas Knie,

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Scientists' Spin-offs The Continuation of
Research by Other Means?Holger Braun-Thürmann,
Andreas Knie, Jörg Potthast, Dagmar Simon

• Sociology of Science and Technology Network
  WorkshopScience and ChangeManchester Business
  SchoolManchester 6th - 7th April 2006

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Overview

• Introduction
• Change within Sciences and Spin-off Companies
• Empirical Findings
• Interpretation
• Organic or policy driven change?

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I Introduction

• What kind of knowledge production can be observed
  within spin-off firms?
• In which theoretical contexts do spinning-off
  processes prove to be relevant?

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II Change within Sciences and Spin-off Companies

• Spin-off firms - a new institutional form for
  coupling science with industry of the
  collaboration between publicly financed sciences
  and industry.
• Spin-off firms - new players within the political
  field belonging to the intersection of the two
  separated policy domains science and technology
  policy.

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III Empirical Findings
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IV Interpretation

• Science as a form of coordination on the markets

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V. Organic or policy driven change?

• Several policy driven aspects in Germany
• Employment legislation that allows scientists to
  stay in publicly funded research institutes only
  for a restricted time span.
• Subsidies for spin-off firm as research funding
• Founding spin-off firms as an item for evaluating
  research institutes.