The economic effects of basic research: evidence for embodied knowledge transfer via scientists’ migration

Zellner, Christian

doi:10.1016/s0048-7333(03)00080-5

Cited by 94 publications

(62 citation statements)

References 19 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Notwithstanding the importance of alternative transfer channels (Bozeman, 2000;Cohen et al, 2002;Zellner, 2003), commercialization of scientific results based on patents, licensing, and spin-off entrepreneurship has found particularly intensive scrutiny (Jensen and Thursby, 2001;Shane, 2002;Lowe and Ziedonis, 2006). Yet in spite of the increased emphasis on the protection of universities' intellectual property rights (IPRs) and IPR-based commercialization, we still know little about the underlying processes of knowledge transfer.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Not invented here: technology licensing, knowledge transfer and innovation based on public research

Buenstorf

Geißler

2011

J Evol Econ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract:Using a new dataset encompassing more than 2,200 inventions made by Max Planck Society researchers from 1980 to 2004, we explore how licensee and technology characteristics affect the licensing and commercialization of technologies from public research. We find no evidence that spin-offs and external licensees systematically differ in their likelihood of successful commercialization. Technologies licensed to foreign firms are less often commercialized, which may reflect selection effects. Patented technologies and inventions by senior scientists are more likely to be licensed, but patent protection is related to lower commercialization odds and lower royalty payments.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Not invented here: technology licensing, knowledge transfer and innovation based on public research

Buenstorf

Geißler

2011

J Evol Econ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…We assume that if technical capital is thus embodied in researchers working in industry as both Zellner (2003) and Faulkner (1998) argue, migrating from industry to university would obviously increase the foregoing capacity, needed on an institutional level in invention process by the university. This can reasonably be considered as a mechanism of knowledge and/or technology transfer from industry to university.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Industry work experience and inventive capacity of South African academic researchers

Lubango

Pouris

2007

Technovation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The inventive capacity of South African universities and researchers is investigated through analysis of university patent applications. Patent applications to the South African Patent office from 1996 to 2006 are used as an indicator of inventive capacity.The investigation determines, for the first time, patenting activities of local universities at the South African Patent Office for the past 10 years and it identifies the performance of faculties and departments. We suggest that patent analysis of local patent offices in developing countries provides a more comprehensive picture of inventive activity than the analyses in the main patent offices in USA and Europe.The assertion that industrial experience affects the inventiveness of academic staff is also investigated. The study finds that most inventors or co-inventors held at least one position in industry, or in some cases, specialized parastatals (non-university institutions) prior to patent application. The study supports the idea that experience and the professional trajectory of scientists through migration from industry to university leads to an increase of researchers' scientific and technical human capital which is convertible into high performance or inventive capacity. We argue that this linkage is valid equally in developed and developing countries (like South Africa) and that universities internationally wishing to improve their entrepreneurial character should aim to employ academic with industrial prior experience.

show abstract

“…Even in such a closed setting knowledge is acquired externally, albeit not on purpose related to a current innovation process, but on a wholesale basis by, e.g., hiring staff with practical or academic research experience, into a R&D team. See Zellner (2003) for a case study of this form of knowledge acquisition.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What kind of innovations do we need to secure our future?

Witt

2016

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The question of what kind of innovations can secure our future is in this paper put in perspective with the unknown risks which innovations may imply. Innovations sometimes turn out to cause severe negative externalities after they have successfully passed the market test. In such cases, the social costs that are revealed only later may result in substantial welfare losses. Obviously, innovations of this kind are the opposite of what is needed. Can the knowledge flows related to innovation processes be strategically arranged in such a way that these externality risks are minimized? The options to be reviewed relate to the debate on open vs. closed innovation processes initiated in management science. The paper briefly discusses several aspects of this debate and introduces a model of self-organizing belief formation which reflects the conditions of open vs. closed innovation processes. On this basis it is shown that a conflict arises between arrangements fostering an early discovery of negative externalities of innovations and the incentives potential innovators have to pursue innovative activities.

show abstract

The economic effects of basic research: evidence for embodied knowledge transfer via scientists’ migration

Cited by 94 publications

References 19 publications

Not invented here: technology licensing, knowledge transfer and innovation based on public research

Not invented here: technology licensing, knowledge transfer and innovation based on public research

Industry work experience and inventive capacity of South African academic researchers

What kind of innovations do we need to secure our future?

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About