This special issue of Industry and Higher Education is devoted to a selection of papers from TTI '96, an international conference on technology transfer and innovation held in London in July 1996. In this introductory paper, the author gives the context of the conference, summarizes presentations made by invited speakers, and sets out some of the points made by participants.
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