Although the literature on university-industry links has begun to uncover the reasons for, and types of, collaboration between universities and businesses, it offers relatively little explanation of ways to reduce the barriers in these collaborations. This paper seeks to unpack the nature of the...

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the impact of academic patenting on publishing and knowledge transfer. Drawing upon two separate surveys of academics, and their CV information, we provide empirical evidence for UK academics in engineering and physical sciences. The contribution...

This paper focuses on one particular type of linkage between university and business - joint research partnerships - and addresses two specific issues. First, it investigates the extent to which research quality and geographical proximity bear an influence on the frequency of the collaborations...

Este documento resume los principales resultados y las conclusiones de la investigación realizada por la División de Ciencia y Tecnología (SCT) del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. El trabajo respondió al doble objetivo de analizar el grado de importancia de la innovación en la región y...

Prior engagement between partners is a well-established antecedent of tie formation in interorganizational networks, and it is frequently operationalized in the context of successful collaborations that have received financial support. In reality, in competitive publicly-funded R&D networks,...

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the impact of academic patenting. On the basis of CV information and two separate surveys, we provide the first empirical evidence for a sample of UK academics in physics, chemistry, computer science and a subset of engineering. The main...