EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UNIVERSITY AND INNOVATION: EVIDENCE FROM THE ITALIAN FOOD INDUSTRY

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

No 201602, Working Papers from Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF

Abstract: This study provides empirical evidence on the role of universities’ Technological Transfer (TT) activities in the Italian manufacturing sector, with particular attention to the food industry. By using the UniCredit-Capitalia database (2008) for firms and data from the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) to obtain the university TT indicator, we estimate a probit model to assess the effect of universities’ TT activities on a firm’s likelihood to innovate. Results show that university TT activities seem to stimulate food industry firms innovation and the impact appears significantly higher than for the manufacturing sector.

Keywords: Universities; Technology transfer; Food firms; Innovation; Spillovers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 D22 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2016-02
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