Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde; Zuniga, Pluvia - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010), pp. 1-26
This paper discusses the diversity of mechanisms which firms can deploy to link to science and how science links are … heterogeneity in the type of links to science at the firm level. Overall, firms with a science link enjoy superior innovation … that patents from firms engaged in science are more frequently cited and have a broader technological and geographical …