Determinants of Knowledge and Technology Transfer Activities Between Firms and Science Institutions in Switzerland: An Analysis Based on Firm Data

Arvanitis, Spyros; Kubli, Ursina; Woerter, Martin

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“…They rather prefer a division of labour between university and industry in terms of complementary knowledge assets than a kind of competitive situation with the public university sector at the knowledge market. (1): For an econometric analysis on the determinants of KTT activities see Arvanitis et al (2005b).…”

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“…In fact, we see that in many studies the absorptive capacity is an important determinant for KTT activities. Arvanitis et al (2005b) found a significant positive effect on the propensity for KTT in Switzerland of the absorptive capacity as measured by the skill-level of employees or the existence and intensity of R&D activities. Laursen and Salter (2004) investigated for the UK the types of firms that use universities as a source of innovation.…”

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“…Mohnen andHoareau 2003, Fontana et al 2004), human capital endowment and absorptive capacity respectively (see e.g. Arvanitis et al 2005b, Schmidt 2005.…”

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“…This is confirmed by firm assessments of the main motives to undertake KTT activities with universities. Firms are motivated for KTT, firstly in order to get better access to human capital (see Geisler and Rubinstein 1989, Onida and Malerba 1989, Arvanitis et al 2005b. A second strong motivation for KTT activities is a better access to new knowledge and technology for improving the firm's knowledge base (see Lee 2000, Santoro and Chakrabarti 2002, Schmoch 2003, Arvanitis et al 2005b.…”

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Firms' Strategies for Knowledge and Technology Transfer With Public Research Organisations and Their Impact on Firms' Performance: An Empirical Analysis Based on Firm-Level Data

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Woerter

2006

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractBased on a representative firm sample for Switzerland we empirically investigated strategic approaches for knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) activities between business firms and public research organisations. Based on cluster analysis of 19 different forms for KTT, three types of KTT strategies were identified, each of them correspond with a specific combination of some of the 19 different forms for KTT activities. It was found that they are determined mainly by variables related (a) to the absorptive capacity of a firm and (b) to the degree of appropriability of the returns of innovation, indicating that the followed strategy reflects the resource base of a firm. Further, it was shown that a firm's obstacle profile with respect to KTT activities is related to the applied strategy. Firms with more intensive contacts emphasise risk-related factors and financial restrictions, while firms with less intensive contacts emphasise a mismatch between firm and university requirements with respect to KTT. Furthermore and most importantly, it was found that strategy matters for the impact of KTT on the innovation performance of a firm. In fact, KTT strategies related to the core R&D activities of a firm showed a greater impact compared to strategies related to 'softer' forms of transfer activities, e.g. informal contacts or education related contacts.4

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“…At the same time, they find that large European firms, firms that patent or are recipients of government support for innovation tend to collaborate much more with universities. The greater reliance of large European firms and those with R&D activities to collaborate more with universities could result from complementarities or substitutions, alternatives that have not received much attention thus far in the literature (although see Arvanitis et al. 2005).…”

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Knowledge links between European universities and firms: A review

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2010

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Difficulty in extracting scientific and research findings from EU universities and placing such knowledge at the commercial disposal of innovation-dependent firms and industries is a cause for grave concern in many European states and regions. We take stock of the evidence from the perspective of knowledge-seeking firms and knowledge-generating universities, an exercise that reveals striking asymmetries: firms presently seek mainly public science outputs of academics, while universities encourage their academics to pursue proprietary science opportunities more heavily in their dealings with business and industry, pursuit of which may provoke other academics to oppose greater commercialization of university research. Copyright (c) 2010 the author(s). Journal compilation (c) 2010 RSAI.

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Determinants of Knowledge and Technology Transfer Activities Between Firms and Science Institutions in Switzerland: An Analysis Based on Firm Data

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Knowledge and Technology Transfer (KTT) Activities Between Universities and Firms in Switzerland: The Main Facts - An Empirical Analysis Based on Firm-Level Data

Knowledge and Technology Transfer (KTT) Activities Between Universities and Firms in Switzerland: The Main Facts - An Empirical Analysis Based on Firm-Level Data

Firms' Strategies for Knowledge and Technology Transfer With Public Research Organisations and Their Impact on Firms' Performance: An Empirical Analysis Based on Firm-Level Data

Knowledge links between European universities and firms: A review

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