University-industry research collaborations in the UK: bibliometric trends

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Research collaborationsUniversity-industry research collaborations in the UK: bibliometric trends J Calvert and P Patel Despite increasing interest amongst policy makers and academics, there have been few attempts at gathering systematic data on the nature and extent of research collaborations between universities and industry. This paper uses joint scientific publications as an indicator of such collaborations in the UK over 20 years. It finds that, although there has been a rapid increase in the volume of university-industry collaborations since the 1980s, the biggest increases were before the major policy measures of the mid-1990s. An important factor would appear to be the growing need for firms, especially non-British firms, to collaborate with leading-edge academic research in promising areas of new technology.Parimal Patel is a senior research fellow at

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“…Direct relationships between private and academic science is part of a broader trend of increasing inter-organisational collaboration in R&D. Over the previous two decades strategic alliances and collaborative arrangement have come to play a growing role in the organisation of R&D in all high-tech industries (Hagedoorn and van Kranenburg 2003;Calvert and Patel 2003).…”

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“…On the one hand, it is the increasing interest in such a method of evaluation as bibliometric analysis due to the general public accessibility and a high degree of systematisation of information databases and increase in the number of papers co-authored by three or more people that may characterise a wide involvement, interaction and exchange of knowledge among researchers in one area. On the other hand, Katz and Martin (1997) insist on the conceptual distinction being made between cooperation and co-authorship, because in many different situations of interaction co-authorship can actually take place without a substantial degree of scientific cooperation and collaboration may occur without the joint publication (Calvert & Patel, 2003). which can be practically difficult to assess.…”

“…The conducted research (Qin et al, 1997;Katz & Martin, 1997;Calvert & Patel, 2003;Butcher & Jeffrey, 2005) allows to identify the trends typical of the present. On the one hand, it is the increasing interest in such a method of evaluation as bibliometric analysis due to the general public accessibility and a high degree of systematisation of information databases and increase in the number of papers co-authored by three or more people that may characterise a wide involvement, interaction and exchange of knowledge among researchers in one area.…”

“…There is ample evidence that one of the suitable methods for quantitative evaluation of the degree of cooperation between universities and industry (Katz & Martin, 1997;Calvert & Patel, 2003;Butcher & Jeffrey, 2005;Diem & Wolter, 2011;Feng et al, 2015) is to estimate the amount of joint scientific publications on the basis of bibliometric analysis using different databases (Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and others). The amount of publications submitted to the database provides a quantitative measure of individual production of researches (Diem & Wolter, 2011), as well as a partial reflection of the science and research collaboration (Calvert & Patel, 2003).…”

“…In addition, the researchers found that the contributions of the scientific community to innovations most commonly takes the form of indirect and intangible flows of ideas, knowledge and expert assistance, and also came to the conclusion that the main way to increase the contribution of universities in innovation is to expand the communication channels between science and industry (Senker, 1998;, including joint ventures, exchanges of personnel, licenses, patents, internships, joint scientific publications and others. Moreover, Calvert and Patel (2002) noted that the joint scientific publications have been used as an indicator of the joint work of universities and industry in the UK for more than 20 years, and found a rapid increase in the volume of such cooperation since 1980.…”