This paper investigates the relationship between engagement in consulting activities and the research performance of academic scientists. The study relies on a sample of 2678 individual faculty, from five Spanish universities, who have been recipients of publicly funded grants or have been...

This paper investigates whether engagement in consulting activities has a significant impact on the research performance of academic scientists. The study relies on a sample of 2678  individual faculty, from five Spanish universities, who have been recipients of publicly funded grants or have...

This paper focuses on the role of human capital in reducing the barriers to firms' engagement in innovation activities. The paper distinguishes between firms facing barriers that stop them from engaging in any innovation activity, and firms that face impediments in the course of their innovation...

In this article we analyse whether university-industry relations (UIR) work to inhibit university researchers' scientific productivity. We find that UIR exercise a positive effect on university scientific productivity when they are based on the development of activities with high scientific...

El establecimiento de forma generalizada de las relaciones entre la Universidad y la empresa ha abierto un campo de estudio de gran interés, centrado en los efectos que tales relaciones pudiesen tener sobre las misiones universitarias tradicionales, especialmente sobre la investigación. En...

Un tema que ha cobrado importancia en los últimos años ha sido el papel de las universidades en el desarrollo socioeconómico de su entorno. Desde diversas esferas se ha estimulado a las universidades para que adopten una "Tercera Misión", relacionada con la generación, aplicación y...

This paper analyses the effect of interaction with universities on firms? innovation output, measured as the degree of novelty of product innovation. The analysis is based on a sample of 3,257 manufacturing firms, active in innovation, and located in Spain. We distinguish between two types of...