The impact of the regional environment on the knowledge transfer outcomes of public research organisations: preliminary results for Europe

Nordine Es-Sadki and Anthony Arundel
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Nordine Es-Sadki: UNU-MERIT
Anthony Arundel: UNU-MERIT

No 2015-017, MERIT Working Papers from United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

Abstract: We use survey data for 238 European universities and 24 research institutes to examine the effects of regional factors at the NUTS-1 or NUTS-2 level on three knowledge transfer outcomes of public research organisations: the number of licence agreements, start-ups and R&D agreements with companies. We find that (1) a larger share of regional employment in high and medium-high technology manufacturing sectors in the same region as the public research organisation has a positive impact on the number of licence agreements. (2) A larger share of employment in knowledge intensive services has a positive impact on the number of start-ups and research agreements, but a negative impact on licence agreements. (3) Competition as measured by the number of public research organisations in a region has a negative impact on all three outcomes. This paper draws on 2012-2013 survey data from ASTP-PROTON and from a Knowledge Transfer survey conducted for the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, Kommersialiserring av offentlig finansiert forskning - datainnsamling, systematisering og analyse for Forskningsbarometeret, under sub-contract for DAMVAD.

Keywords: Technology transfer; Public research organisations; PRI; University-industry technology transfer; technology transfer offices; regional location; regional effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 L24 M13 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ent, nep-eur, nep-knm and nep-sbm
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