ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ON FIRMS’ INNOVATION

Paola Cardamone (), Valeria Pupo () and Fernanda Ricotta

No 201403, Working Papers from Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF

Abstract: This paper analyses the influence of universities on Italian firms’ probability to innovate. Using firm-level data, we focus on institutionalised technology transfer (TT) activities in universities, namely spin-offs, patents and research contracts. Results show that TT activities play a significant role in the probability to innovate by Italian manufacturing firms located in the same province as the university. Nevertheless, the effect is not uniform: the contribution of university TT activities to the probability of firms’ innovating is concentrated in certain territorial areas (North-East and Centre) and sectors (science based and scale intensive) and among firms that are large.

Keywords: Universities; Technology transfer; Manufacturing firms; Innovation; Spillovers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2014-04
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