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Intro -- Measuring the Social Value of Innovation: A Link in the University Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship Equation -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The topic and colloquium -- Outcomes and new directions -- Overview of the volume -- References -- Chapter 1. Toward measuring the social and economic value of university innovation: a survey of the literature -- University entrepreneurship -- New directions in the valuation of university entrepreneurship -- Notes -- References -- Part I. Demonstrating Social and Economic Value of Individual Innovations: The Benefits to the Institution and the Individual Innovator -- Chapter 2. Normative change in science: from entrepreneurial science to social Entrepreneurship -- Introduction -- Normative change in science -- Method -- From transfer of technology to the technology of transfer -- Multivariate industrial science -- Entrepreneurial science -- Conclusion: social innovation -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3. Toward open source nano: arsenic removal and alternative models of technology transfer -- Exploring open source software -- Toward open source nano: magnetite nanocrystals for arsenic removal (and beyond) -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4. Measures, metrics, and myopia: The challenges and ramifications of sustaining academic entrepreneurship -- Introduction -- Measurement and reactivity -- Technology transfer at U.S. universities -- Institutionalizing academic entrepreneurship -- Data and methods -- Results -- Conclusion and implications -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5. Tracking the placement of students as a measure of technology transfer -- 1. Introduction -- 2. PhDs working in industry2 -- 3. The availability of placement data at the university level -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix. Definition of regions -- Part II. Exploring Metrics snd Measures for Demonstrating the Social and Economic value of Individual Innovations -- Chapter 6. Measuring the social value of innovation: the cases of Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank and Bill Gates, Microsoft -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Definitions and theoretical framework -- 3. The cases: the mission and opportunities -- 4. The economic impact of radical innovation: scale and wealth creation -- 5. The social impact of innovation: interpersonal interactions and social capital -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 7. Evaluating the social returns to innovation: an application to university technology transfer -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The evaluation methodology -- 3. Case study of injectable composite bone grafts -- 4. Conclusions and caveats -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8. The value of an individual innovation: when ownership of complementary inventions is fragmented -- Introduction -- The metric in theory -- Implementation -- A distinction in metrics -- A check on what citations mean -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part III. Implications of Pilot Program Development with Intent to Transfer to Other Institutions -- Chapter 9. The state role in entrepreneurship and economic development: governance, oversight, and public university start-up innovation -- Introduction -- Background context and data -- State economic development initiatives and universities -- Discussion and future research -- References -- Chapter 10. Housing the measurement of university innovations’ social value: organizational site, professional perspective, institutional outlook -- Interstitial units within universities -- Scholars in academic units within universities -- Hybrid innovation units within universities -- Intermediating associations outside universities -- Beyond the limitations of current metrics -- Conclusion: community-based university extension centers and regional consortia -- References -- .