It is generally claimed that universities provide the scientific basis for future technological progress. Still …, empirical evidence of the impact of direct links between universities and firms remains weak and is often at least inconsistent … performance of SMEs and MNEs. Furthermore, geographical proximity between team members is generally shown to be valuable for team …

universities to strengthen their links with and knowledge transfers to external partners. This focus on university … universities. The resulting survey is based on 174 personal interviews lasting 40-60 minutes. The empirical results point to a more …

on the research productivity of public universities. Helping fill that gap, this paper is the first to examine the role … that state appropriations play in public universities' patent production. The results suggest that state appropriation cuts … have a negative impact on the number of approved patent applications from public research universities. Lower state …

Based on detailed information about the regional knowledge base, particularly about universities, we find that regional …