Cross-country evidence on the contributions of research institutions to innovation

Caroline Paunov, Martin Borowiecki and Nevine El-Mallakh
Additional contact information
Martin Borowiecki: OECD
Nevine El-Mallakh: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

No 77, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: This paper presents preliminary evidence on the patenting activities of 21 200 research institutions - 20 091 higher education institutions (HEIs) and 1 109 public research institutes (PRIs) - for 36 OECD countries and China from 1992 to 2014. Our evidence, which builds on a database that matches research institutions to a sample of their patent applications, indicates patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) filed by research institutions grew faster than industry patents. Those jointly filed by industry and research institutions grew even faster. However, research institutions’ share in patent applications remains low and their ratio of patents granted to applications is below that of industry. An econometric analysis at postal code level shows that geographical proximity to research institutions is associated with higher industry patenting. Results from an instrumental variable estimation indicate that research institutions positively influence local industry patenting, including in life sciences and digital technologies.

Keywords: China; Higher education institutions (HEIs); innovation; local knowledge spillovers; OECD countries; patents; public research institutes (PRIs); universities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 O31 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-09-24
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-knm and nep-sbm
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1787/d52d6176-en (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oec:stiaac:77-en

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers from OECD Publishing Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().