GeoVerse Lab
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Business Development & Ventures Center

Facilitates commercialization of research outputs through industry partnerships, licensing, and venture creation, bridging research innovation with market applications via IP/patent strategy, spin-off formation, and public-private partnerships.

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Research Fields 18
Entrepreneurship Theory & the Function of the Entrepreneur
🧭 Entrepreneurship Theory & the Function of the Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship theory analyses the entrepreneur not as a personality type or a job title…
Disruptive Innovation Theory
🌀 Disruptive Innovation Theory
Disruptive innovation theory, formulated by Clayton Christensen in The Innovator's Dilemma…
Diffusion of Innovations
📈 Diffusion of Innovations
Diffusion of innovations is the study of how, why and at what rate new ideas, practices an…
National & Sectoral Innovation Systems
🏛️ National & Sectoral Innovation Systems
The systems-of-innovation approach holds that a country's or sector's innovative performan…
Transaction Cost Economics & Firm Boundaries
🔗 Transaction Cost Economics & Firm Boundaries
Transaction cost economics explains why economic activity is organised as it is — some thr…
Agency Theory & Corporate Governance
⚖️ Agency Theory & Corporate Governance
Agency theory analyses relationships in which one party, the principal, delegates decision…
Resource-Based View & Theory of Firm Growth
🌱 Resource-Based View & Theory of Firm Growth
The resource-based view (RBV) explains persistent differences in firm performance by looki…
Industrial Organization & Entry Barriers
🏰 Industrial Organization & Entry Barriers
Industrial organization is the branch of microeconomics that studies markets whose structu…
Economics of Intellectual Property & Patents
📜 Economics of Intellectual Property & Patents
The economics of intellectual property studies how legal rights to exclude others from usi…
Technology Transfer & the Economics of R&D
🔬 Technology Transfer & the Economics of R&D
The economics of R&D and technology transfer measures how investment in research, patents …
Venture Capital & Innovation Finance
💵 Venture Capital & Innovation Finance
Venture capital is the professionally managed provision of equity and equity-like financin…
Real Options & Valuation of Ventures Under Uncertainty
🎲 Real Options & Valuation of Ventures Under Uncertainty
Real options analysis applies option-pricing theory to capital investments whose value lie…
Marketing Strategy & Customer Discovery
🎯 Marketing Strategy & Customer Discovery
Marketing strategy in the Levitt tradition is the discipline of defining a business in ter…
Agglomeration Economics & Regional Innovation Clusters
🏙️ Agglomeration Economics & Regional Innovation Clusters
Agglomeration economics studies why economic activity concentrates spatially even though l…
Game Theory in Business Strategy & Negotiation
♟️ Game Theory in Business Strategy & Negotiation
Game theory in business strategy studies situations where the payoff of each participant's…
Strategic Management & Business Model Design
🧩 Strategic Management & Business Model Design
Strategic management is the discipline of deciding in which product-markets a firm will co…
Management Consulting & Industry-Academia Collaboration
🤝 Management Consulting & Industry-Academia Collaboration
This field studies the consulting firm as a bridge institution that converts scientific an…
Business Valuation & Investment Due Diligence
🔍 Business Valuation & Investment Due Diligence
Business valuation and investment due diligence is the discipline of estimating the intrin…