1. Introduction: People, tensions and impact in university interactions -- 2. PhDs with industry partners – assessing collaboration and topic distribution using a text mining methodology -- 3. The heterogeneous impact of academic patent characteristics on firms’ economic performance -- 4....

This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...