UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
For pioneering research on technology transfer and innovative entrepreneurship, which has unlocked the potential of university and public sector entrepreneurship.
Motivation
For more than two decades, Professor Albert N. Link and Professor Donald S. Siegel have exhibited exemplary leadership in the creation, development, and nurturing of research on technology transfer and innovative entrepreneurship. Their research and publications, spanning the academic disciplines of economics, management and entrepreneurship, have paved the way for a new generation of scholars and research on previously neglected sources and processes of entrepreneurship.
By showing and explaining how entrepreneurs are connected with the institutions, organizations, and geographies around them, they have inspired new, increasingly nuanced, and research-based approaches to public policy, aimed at fostering innovative entrepreneurship. Their pioneering research and promotion of technology transfer in different contexts have unlocked the entrepreneurial potential of universities and government bodies alike, in the process contributing to science-based innovation and entrepreneurial new venturing that would otherwise have remained dormant.
Their scholarly leadership is an exemplary case of how scientific rigor and world-class research can go hand in hand with societal impact and the promotion of real-world entrepreneurship.
Documents
Albert N. Link Biography.pdf
Donald S. Siegel Biography.pdf