Abstract:
Governments around the world want to maximise their returns from investment into publicly funded research, by specific government interventions. This thesis examines government interventions that support public research commercialisation in New Zealand, Finland and Norway. The research herein was guided by the identification of variables that influence the success of public research commercialisation, and the formation and testing of a series of hypothesis based on these variables. The four hypotheses presented in this theses focus on the variables of clarity of IP ownership, early stage funding, public research organisation and industry linkages, and links between public research organisations, as variables for the success of public research commercialisation. These hypotheses were applied to New Zealand, Finland and Norway, and were measured for support based on if these countries had government interventions that these variables were identified with. This thesis concluded that the hypotheses of early stage funding, clear intellectual property and public research organisation linkages were strongly supported hypotheses, and that links between public research organisations was weakly supported hypotheses.