Abstract
TTOs have been considered the most important instrument for universities to sup- port and develop academic entrepreneurship. Various policies and instruments can be implemented by TTOs to support the commercialization of academic knowledge. We focus on factors such as TTOs’ governance and their internal organization, the mis- sion/strategy underlying their activities, and the national and specific constrains under which they work to better understand the role of TTOs and the role of universities as facilitators (or inhibitors) of academic entrepreneurship. Using the data from a survey developed under the FinKT (financing knowledge transfer in Europe) project, we pro- vide evidence on the support that academic, European TTOs offer to academic entre- preneurship using a cross-country lens.