Analyzing technology transfer offices’ influence for entrepreneurial universities in Portugal

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how important technology transfer offices (TTOs) – which in Portuguese are called “industrial property support offices” or GAPIs – are in terms of fostering patent applications and technology transfer in countries characterized by low performance records in these activities. Design/methodology/approach Among the existing 23 Portuguese GAPIs, only eight agreed to provide answers to a semi-structured...