An Assessment of the Determinants of University Technology Transfer

Pernía, José Luis González; Kuechle, Graciela; Legazkue, Iñaki Peña

doi:10.1177/0891242412471847

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“…The STI and DUI learning approaches are important, but undertaking both together makes firms more likely to achieve innovation outputs. On the other hand, there is a need to better understand the role played by entrepreneurial universities in the process of value creation (González-Pernía et al, 2013). Firms that collaborate with universities are more likely to innovate in product, but they need to expand their collaborative network of partners to transform their ideas into marketable products.…”

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STI–DUI learning modes, firm–university collaboration and innovation

2014

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In this study, the relationship between the use of collaborative agreements and the firm's innovation output is examined. Firms may innovate using partnerships linked to a "science and technology-based" (STI) mode of learning, as well as partnerships linked to a "learning-by-doing, by-using and by-interacting-based' (DUI) mode of learning. Within this view, universities are important STI partners that provide flows of science and technology driven knowledge leading to innovation. A fixed-effects logit estimation is applied on an extensive panel of Spanish manufacturing and service firms to analyze the separate and combined impact of collaborative agreements associated to STI and/or DUI modes of learning, with a special emphasis on the role of partnerships with universities. Even though STI and DUI partnerships are both important for product and process innovations, the results demonstrate that different types of collaboration are related to different types of innovation. While product innovation benefits more from the combination of DUI and STI partnerships, process innovation is more closely related to DUI partnerships. Apart from that, collaborations with universities, in combination with DUI partners, leads to a higher likelihood of product innovation. In contrast, process innovations are less dependent on collaborations with universities than on collaborations with other STI partners.

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STI–DUI learning modes, firm–university collaboration and innovation

2014

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“…In some countries, IP ownership rules and other relevant regulations are determined nationally and can influence the performance of individual universities or public research institutes (Colyvas et al, 2002;Goldfarb and Henrekson 2003;Valentin and Jensen 2007;Conti and Gaule 2011;Geuna and Rossi 2011). University by-laws on IP can act as a stimulus to promote patenting (Baldini, Grimaldi and Sobrero 2006;Baldini 2010), whereas these by-laws have not been found to affect licencing agreements (Gonza´lez-Pernı´a et al, 2013). Wright et al (2008) find that the use of identical patent policies across institutions can help to attract the R&D activities of larger companies.…”

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The effectiveness of policies for formal knowledge transfer from European universities and public research institutes to firms

Barjak

Es-Sadki

Arundel

2014

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We use survey data for 247 European universities and 40 public research organizations to investigate the effects of institutional policies on four outcomes of transfer performance (R&D agreements with companies, patent applications, licence agreements, and start-ups established). We find that the effects of policies to establish clear rules, improve transparency, and provide financial or non-financial incentives vary by outcome. Improving transparency by publishing the policies for licencing or intellectual property are often negatively correlated with outcomes, particularly for licence agreements. Out of three non-financial incentives, only social rewards have a rather positive effect (on start-ups), but financial incentives are positively correlated with several outcomes. A higher salary is positively linked to the number of research agreements and patent applications, while giving inventors a share of revenue is positively correlated with licencing and start-ups. The results suggest that the type of incentive as well as the degree of transparency of transfer policies should be chosen to complement the main transfer channels and strategy of the institution.

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“…the existence of agglomeration economies, entrepreneurial innovation systems, as well as demographic and geographical factors) are influential factors on venture creation and performance (Audretsch, Link & Peña, 2013;González, Kuechle & Peña, 2013). Veciana & Urbano (2008) elaborate on North's ideas to explain that the process of becoming entrepreneur is highly conditioned by the formal and informal institutions and thus, it can be explained through the institutional theory.…”

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Does the Liability of Foreignness Matter?

Irastorza

Peña

2013

BMR

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The liability of foreignness is a phenomenon scarcely studied in the entrepreneurship literature. While immigrants seem to be prone to create new firms, they face different sorts of barriers to launch new businesses. We apply a binomial logistic regression on Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data to compare immigrants' and natives' entrepreneurial intentions to the actual self-employment activity of each group, and the factors affecting potential differences. We found that immigrants are more likely to have self-employment plans than natives but less likely to end up becoming self-employed. We explain this gap by the liability of foreignness hypothesis, i.e. additional difficulties faced by immigrants when entering the job market or starting up a business in a new country such as poor language skills, the lack of labour experience, the lack of human and social capital endowments specific to that country, and institutional restrictions including discrimination.

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An Assessment of the Determinants of University Technology Transfer

Cited by 70 publications

References 54 publications

STI–DUI learning modes, firm–university collaboration and innovation

STI–DUI learning modes, firm–university collaboration and innovation

The effectiveness of policies for formal knowledge transfer from European universities and public research institutes to firms

Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Does the Liability of Foreignness Matter?

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