TY - CHAP
T1 - Influences of the Regional and National Economic Environment on the Technology Transfer Performance of Academic Institutions in Europe
AU - Barjak, Franz
AU - Es-Sadki, Nordine
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The paper looks how the national and regional environment influence the knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) performance of universities and public research institutes. We regress a number of institutional control variables, country dummies and variables for region size and economic structure, per capita income, technology intensity, and R&D intensity on four different tech transfer performance measures (R&D agreements with companies, patent applications, start-ups, licence agreements). Drawing on data from a survey of more than 200 European institutions we find: (1) Country differences are related to differences in the institutional set-up of technology transfer and to the (regional) economic environment which suggests multi-level analyses to properly take these interactions into account. (2) Institutions in a country usually excel for one performance measure which we take as a supporting argument for the development of transfer strategies. (3) Having manufacturing companies and a large share of governmental R&D expenditure in the region matter more than the technology intensity and R&D intensity of the regional economy. The latter result is counterintuitive and indicates that further research is needed in order to understand better where the clients of university technologies actually come from.
AB - The paper looks how the national and regional environment influence the knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) performance of universities and public research institutes. We regress a number of institutional control variables, country dummies and variables for region size and economic structure, per capita income, technology intensity, and R&D intensity on four different tech transfer performance measures (R&D agreements with companies, patent applications, start-ups, licence agreements). Drawing on data from a survey of more than 200 European institutions we find: (1) Country differences are related to differences in the institutional set-up of technology transfer and to the (regional) economic environment which suggests multi-level analyses to properly take these interactions into account. (2) Institutions in a country usually excel for one performance measure which we take as a supporting argument for the development of transfer strategies. (3) Having manufacturing companies and a large share of governmental R&D expenditure in the region matter more than the technology intensity and R&D intensity of the regional economy. The latter result is counterintuitive and indicates that further research is needed in order to understand better where the clients of university technologies actually come from.
KW - Academic entrepreneurship
KW - Regional innovation system
KW - Regional technology demand
KW - Technology transfer
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-17713-7_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-17713-7_10
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783319177137
SN - 9783319177120
VL - 32
T3 - International Studies in Entrepreneurship
SP - 207
EP - 234
BT - University Evolution, Entrepreneurial Activity and Regional Competitiveness
PB - Springer
ER -