Twenty-five years of science-industry collaboration: the emergence and evolution of policy-driven research networks across Europe

Πρωτόγερου, Αιμιλία; Caloghirou, Yannis; Siokas, Evangelos

doi:10.1007/s10961-012-9278-3

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“…These processes are ensured by university-industry (UI) interactions, in their various modes (i.e. joint publications; joint research projects; co-patenting; spin-off), and their crucial role being recognized by both researchers and policy makers (Link and Scott 2005;Perkmann et al 2013;Protogerou et al 2013). Over the last ten years there has been a sizeable increase of the literature on the topic, while policymakers, are increasingly seeking the best handles to maximize the effectiveness of interactions between firms and public research institutions at the regional and national level.…”

Section: New Trends and Policy Interest In University-industry Researchmentioning

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University–industry linkages and academic engagements: individual behaviours and firms’ barriers. Introduction to the special section

Filippetti

Savona

2017

J Technol Transf

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The article introduces the special section on ''University-industry linkages and academic engagements: Individual behaviours and firms' barriers''. We first revisit the latest developments of the literature and policy interest on university-industry research. We then build upon the extant literature and unpack the concept of academic engagement by further exploring the heterogeneity of UI linkages along a set of dimensions and actors involved. These are: (1) Incentives and behaviours of individual academic entrepreneurs; (2) Firms' barriers to cooperation with public research institutions; (3) Individual behaviours, incentives and organizational bottlenecks in late developing countries. We summarize the individual contributions along these dimensions. There are overlooked individual characteristics that affect the degree of engagement of academics and scholars in cooperating with other organizations, of which gender and the nonacademic background of individuals are most crucial. The notion of academic engagement should be enlarged to aspects that go beyond the commercialization or patenting of innovation, but embrace social and economic impact more at large. From the perspective of the firm, barriers to innovation might exert an effect on the likelihood to cooperate with universities and public research institutes, most especially to cope with lack of finance or access to frontier knowledge. We finally propose a research agenda that addresses the challenges ahead.

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Section: New Trends and Policy Interest In University-industry Researchmentioning

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University–industry linkages and academic engagements: individual behaviours and firms’ barriers. Introduction to the special section

Filippetti

Savona

2017

J Technol Transf

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“…To this end, we have also been guided by several technology transfer literature reviews (e.g. Adomavicius et al, 2008;Agrawal, 2003;Tran and Kocaoglu, 2009;Protogerou et al, 2012;Bradley et al, 2013).…”

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The evolving state-of-the-art in technology transfer research: Revisiting the contingent effectiveness model

2015

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“…In line with these considerations, the economic and societal impacts of research networks and in particular FPs are manifold. First, FPs have been particularly successful in incorporating smaller and peripheral communities in the wider European network, strengthening the research integration and cohesion in Europe (Protogerou et al 2013). Second, research networks are effective for both the creation and diffusion of knowledge and technologies, which can further spur regional or national wealth and competitiveness (Lehmann and Menter 2016).…”

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The organisational and geographic diversity and innovation potential of EU-funded research networks

2018

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Public funding of research improves the systemic conditions of entrepreneurial ecosystems. It provides early-stage financing to technologies that form the basis for new products and services. In addition to financial support, instruments as the EC Framework Programmes (FP) facilitate the creation of research networks. By bringing together organisations of various types and geographic origins and increasing the diversity of their interactions, the instrument seeks to accelerate a discovery process in which organisations attempt to bring desired innovations to the market and society. In this paper, we examine the impact of organisational and geographic diversity of partnerships in EU-funded research networks on the commercial potential of their innovations. We explore a sample of 603 collaborative research projects supported by European FPs. We use data from the Innovation Radar, a unique survey database developed by DG CONNECT to assess the innovation outcomes of FP projects in ICT. We show that innovations developed by research networks with a higher organisational diversity have more commercial potential. This finding supports the idea that policies improving systemic conditions of entrepreneurship ecosystems through the creation of institutionally diverse research networks can have beneficial effects on the commercialisation potential of innovations developed in FP projects. In contrast, research networks with a wider range of internationally dispersed research partners are likely to have less innovation potential. This may suggest the existence of coordination and communication difficulties in FP projects where geographic diversity is greater.

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Twenty-five years of science-industry collaboration: the emergence and evolution of policy-driven research networks across Europe

Cited by 38 publications

References 22 publications

University–industry linkages and academic engagements: individual behaviours and firms’ barriers. Introduction to the special section

University–industry linkages and academic engagements: individual behaviours and firms’ barriers. Introduction to the special section

The evolving state-of-the-art in technology transfer research: Revisiting the contingent effectiveness model

The organisational and geographic diversity and innovation potential of EU-funded research networks

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