. Our evidence, which builds on a database that matches research institutions to a sample of their patent applications …, indicates patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) filed by research institutions grew faster than industry … patent applications remains low and their ratio of patents granted to applications is below that of industry. An econometric …

This paper studies the impact of universities on local innovation activity by exploiting a unique university expansion …, university expansion significantly increases universities’ own innovation capacity, which results in a dramatic boom of local … patents not related to universities. Second, the impact of university expansion on local innovation activities attenuates …

international stakeholders who may potentially cooperate with Chinese research universities in research, development, and innovation. …

Purpose: At present, the Central Government of China pays more attention to the synergistic innovation, and the … national strategy policy of "innovation driven development" are made to implementations. Thus, the university plays an … important role in the national innovation system, so that how the university gets involved in innovative activities becomes the …