Despite the importance of low-tech manufacturing sectors for national economies, previous studies on UIC benefits for … the firms were conducted mostly in high-tech sectors, making the knowledge on the impact of UIC on innovation in low … innovation performance. By using the csQCA technique applied to secondary data from the BR Survey, which is the largest UIC …

We analyze the collaboration between manufacturing firms and universities in Canada. The data comes from the Statistics … firms, their reasons for collaboration and the impact of collaboration on their performance. The econometric analysis … estimates the probability that a firm collaborates with universities. The results suggest that collaboration with universities …

localized to the extent that the underlying mechanisms are geographically bounded. However, university-industry collaboration … to take place over longer distances. The effect of university-industry collaboration networks on knowledge spillovers is … modelled using an extended knowledge production function framework applied to regions in the Netherlands. We find that the …