全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP14565 What drives university-industry collaboration: Research excellence or firm collaboration strategy?

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14565
	DP14565 What drives university-industry collaboration: Research excellence or firm collaboration strategy?
	Kwadwo Atta-Owusu; Rune Fitjar; Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
发表日期	2020-04-05
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	Research and innovation policy aims to boost research output and university-industry collaboration (UIC) at least in part to allow firms access to leading scientific knowledge. As part of their mission, universities are expected to contribute to innovation in their regions. However, the relationship between research output and UIC is unclear: research-intensive universities can produce frontier research, which is attractive to firms, but may also suffer from a gap between the research produced and the needs of local firms, as well as mission overload. This may hinder local firms’ ability to cooperate with universities altogether or force them to look beyond the region for other suitable universities to interact with. This paper investigates the relationship between the research output of local universities and firms’ participation in UICs across different geographical scales. It uses Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data for Norwegian firms and Scopus data on Norwegian universities’ research output across various disciplines. The results demonstrate that local university research intensity and quality are negatively associated with firm participation in UICs at the local level. Firm characteristics, in particular the firm’s general strategy towards cooperation and its geography, turn out to be much more important than university characteristics in explaining UICs. Notably, firms’ cooperation with other external partners at the same scale is a strong predictor of UICs.
主题	International Trade and Regional Economics
关键词	Research Universities Firms University-industry collaboration Norway
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14565
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543471
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kwadwo Atta-Owusu,Rune Fitjar,Andrés Rodríguez-Pose. DP14565 What drives university-industry collaboration: Research excellence or firm collaboration strategy?. 2020.