Cross-technology innovation trends and evidence with patent and funding data

Hyde, David; Fu, Ernestine

doi:10.1016/j.wpi.2022.102129

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“…Consequently, co-patenting is an important outcome of the university-industry collaboration, leading to technological developments. As such, the analysis of joint patent data enhances the understanding of transnational knowledge flows [83][84][85]. Therefore, the analysis of patents generated jointly by academia and university can objectively evaluate the technological collaboration between enterprises and academia.…”

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Evaluation of Technological Knowledge Transfer between Silicon Fen Firms and University of Cambridge Based on Patents Analysis

Rezaei

Kamali

2022

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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Silicon Fen (SF) is a cluster of high-tech firms located around the University of Cambridge (UoC) in the UK. This article, for the first time, investigates the technological bonds between SF firms and UoC based on patent analysis covering the period of 1999–2021. We provide a short history of SF, highlighting its early formation and growth, and the role of spin-off firms on its evolution. We employ joint patents generated by UoC and various business sectors of SF to calculate the values of technological collaboration strength (TCS). It is found that the majority of joint patents (61%) are generated by the Pharma/Biotech sector of SF with the highest value of TCS (16.45 × 10−3). Moreover, the patent’s economic values across various business disciplines in SF are calculated based on the total counts of citations. Our observations suggest that senior university academics making spin-off firms in a business cluster around their university can effectively facilitate university–firm technological collaboration. Furthermore, the relatively strong technological bond between UoC and the Pharma/Biotech sector of SF is confirmed to be influenced by the collaboration of the university with its own spin-off firms rather than large independent firms in SF. The outcomes of this research contribute to the knowledge of the collaboration between a main research university and a cluster of firms located in its geographical proximity.

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