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The nexus between science and industry : evidence from faculty inventions

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2009

Against the background of the so-called "European paradox", i.e. the conjecture that EU countries lack the capability to transfer science into commercial innovations, knowledge transfer from academia to industry has been a central issue in policy debates recently. Based on a sample of German...

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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science

Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...

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Measuring knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services : an empirical assessment of alternative approaches

Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999

In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a firm can costlessly receive external knowlegde best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit'...

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Foreign direct investment spillovers and pharmaceutical innovation : the role of intellectual property rights

Ho, Chun-Yu; Li, Xin; Zhou, Weimin - 2017

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering the pharmaceutical industries across 29 provinces in the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the period 1998-2007. We show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect...

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Tech Transfer : Everything (Patent) is Never Quite Enough

Gibbons, Llewellyn Joseph - 2014

All forms of intellectual property may be necessary for the effective commercialization of a patent. Nevertheless …, while the Bayh-Dole Act is an explicit recognition by Congress of the need to allocate patent rights in order to promote a … policy of commercializing the products of federal research funding, it is silent on other salient intellectual patent rights …

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Spatial localization of knowledge-transfer channels and face-to-face contacts : a survey of the Jena university-industry linkages

Sauer, Thomas; Stoetzer, Matthias-Wolfgang; Gerlach, Andrea - 2007 - [Online-Ausg.]

In this paper we examine the knowledge-Transfer Channels of the universities and public research institutes in Jena. The empirical study is based on a survey of 297 personal interviews with researchers of both types of organisations. Our study focuses on three questions: (a) The importance and...

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In search for the not-invented-here syndrome : the role of knowledge sources and firm success

Hussinger, Katrin; Wastyn, Annelies - 2011 - This version: June 2011

The not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome refers to internal resistance in a company against externally developed knowledge. In this paper, we argue that the occurrence of the NIH syndrome depends on the source of external knowledge and the success of the firm that aims at adapting external...

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Have R&D Spillovers Changed?

Lucking, Brian - 2017

This paper revisits the results of Bloom, Schankerman, and Van Reenen (2013) on the impact of R&D spillovers on growth. We extend their analysis to include an additional 15 years of data on firm R&D and performance, and update the measures of firms' interactions in technology space and product...

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R&D Spillovers with Endogenous Absorptive Capacity : Lessons for Developing Countries

Bae, Chankwon - 2016

This paper analyzes the role of absorptive capacity in R&D spillovers through strategic R&D investments in a game-theoretic framework. In the model, a firm's effective R&D is composed of idiosyncratic R&D, which produces its own innovations, and identical R&D, which improves absorptive capacity....

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An Empirical Analysis of the Propensity of Academics to Engage In Informal University Technology Transfer

Link, Albert - 2015

Formal university technology transfer mechanisms, through licensing agreements, research joint ventures, and university-based startups, have attracted considerable attention in the academic literature. Surprisingly, there has been little systematic empirical analysis of the propensity of...

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