Universities as Research Partners

Bronwyn Hall, Albert Link and John Scott

No 10-9, UNCG Economics Working Papers from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics

Abstract: Universities are a key institution in the US innovation system and an important aspect of their involvement is the role they play in Private-Public Partnering activities. This study seeks to gain a better understanding of the performance of university-industry research partnerships using a sample survey of pre-commercial research projects funded the U.S. government's Advanced Technology Program. Although results must be interpreted cautiously due to the small size of the sample, the study finds that projects with university involvement tend to be in areas involving "new" science and therefore experience more difficulty and delay but also are more likely not to be aborted prematurely. We interpret this finding to imply that universities are contributing to basic research awareness and insight among the partners in ATP-funded projects.

Keywords: university; research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2010-10-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ino, nep-ipr, nep-pr~ and nep-ppm
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w7643 Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Universities as Research Partners (2003)
Working Paper: Universities as Research Partners (2001)
Working Paper: Universities as Research Partners (2000)
Working Paper: Universities as Research Partners (2000)
Working Paper: Universities as Research Partners (2000)
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:ris:uncgec:2010_009

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in UNCG Economics Working Papers from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics UNC Greensboro, Department of Economics, PO Box 26170, Bryan Building 462, Greensboro, NC 27402. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Albert Link ().