Knowledge Interactions between Universities and Industry in Austria: Sectoral Patterns and Determinants

Schartinger, Doris; Rammer, Christian; Fischer, Manfred M.; Fröhlich, Josef

doi:10.1007/3-540-35981-8_7

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“…Questions regarding university employees' opinions about cooperation with the surrounding society are also included. The questions in the survey are inspired by Inzelt (2004) and Schartinger et al (2002).…”

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Start-ups among university employees: the influence of legitimacy, human capital and social capital

Karlsson

Wigren

2010

J Technol Transf

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Using a sample of 7,260 university employees, we investigate how legitimacy, social and human capital influence the employees' start-up propensity. We find that scientific legitimacy, as measured by the number of recently published peer reviewed scientific articles, and conference papers accepted had no significant effect. Scientific legitimacy measured as publications in non-peer review journals even had a negative effect. Popular legitimacy showed mixed results. Measured as number of articles in popular science publications showed positive correlations and other public media appearances had a non significant effect on start-up propensity. Individuals who are older and have higher level of human capital, measured as level of education are less likely to start firms. We also found that, people with more social capital, such as contact with external product development teams are more likely to start new firms. Taken together, the findings suggest that activities spanning the university-business divide increase the start-up propensity, while within university activities had no, or negative effects on the propensity. Consequently, universities interested in encouraging their employees to start firms should focus their attention on creating spanning activities rather than improving conditions for within university tenure.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Start-ups among university employees: the influence of legitimacy, human capital and social capital

Karlsson

Wigren

2010

J Technol Transf

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“…Research on university-industry relations indicates that there is a high degree of interaction of more informal kinds (Schartinger et al 2002). University-firm interactions in highly institutionalized collaborative contexts can be described as 'mature' and are probably built upon many years of collaboration and networking (Thune 2006).…”

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Doctoral students on the university–industry interface: a review of the literature

2009

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Doctoral students are highly important in university-firm relationships, since they are significant producers of knowledge in collaborative research projects, they are an important channel for knowledge transfer between universities and firms, and are vital in network configurations between firms and universities. An increasing number of doctoral students interact with firms, but we know relatively little about the experiences of these students or how collaboration influences their training, research and subsequent careers. With this in mind, this paper presents a literature review of (1) theoretical assumptions concerning the roles doctoral students are expected to fulfill in university-industry relationships, and (2) empirical research of doctoral students' interaction experience and outcomes of doctoral student-industry interaction. The aim of the paper is to develop hypotheses for further research on doctoral student-industry interaction.

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“…The institutional differentiation into academic partners (other universities and universities of applied science), public research centers and private companies' think tanks allows for a more in-depth interpretation of the results. Among all collaborations, inter-university cooperations are still and by far the most important ones, but a large body of literature on knowledge spillovers identifies a strong and irreversible trend of increased university-industry interaction (Stephan 1996;Schmoch 1999;Schartinger et al 2002). If this trend, which has particularly been observed in the generation of technical knowledge, also holds for publication activities, it might very well affect the geographical pattern of co-authors.…”

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Regional and global collaborations for knowledge in German academia

Meyborg

Schaffer

2014

Rev Reg Res

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Universities role in the research system has undergone a significant change in recent years. Stand-alone strategies are continuously replaced by the pooling of resources and collaborations for knowledge. This is due to a rising complexity of scientific problems in conjunction with scarce budgets and reflects, among others, in an increasing number of co-authored papers, which are in the focus of this study. Based on more than 125,000 articles, the paper presents general trends on the publication activities of German academia between 2000 and 2009 in a first step. Though both, the number of single- and co-authored papers increased rapidly in this period, the rising share of co-authored papers points to the growing importance of collaborations for knowledge. Looking at co-authored papers only, local/regional and interregional/global partnerships seem to be equally important. While this is true for the whole sample, it could be assumed that the geographic distribution of partner differs with the universities reputation and orientation. Elite universities, for example, could be expected to publish more and more globally. Before this background the paper scrutinizes specific patterns of different types of universities in a second step. The paper closes with an analysis of spatial proximity as a potential driver for collaborations among partners within a 1000 km circle of each university. Results are twofold. On the one hand, correlation coefficients for all considered partners confirm the generally increasing intensity of cooperation with declining distance. On the other hand, spatial proximity hardly matters for partners with a distance larger than 25 km but smaller than 475 km

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Knowledge Interactions between Universities and Industry in Austria: Sectoral Patterns and Determinants

Cited by 52 publications

References 29 publications

Start-ups among university employees: the influence of legitimacy, human capital and social capital

Start-ups among university employees: the influence of legitimacy, human capital and social capital

Doctoral students on the university–industry interface: a review of the literature

Regional and global collaborations for knowledge in German academia

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