A dataset on knowledge creation and patenting by European Higher Education Institutions (KC-HEI)

Aleksandra Parteka, Piotr PÅ‚atkowski (), Sabina Szymczak () and Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz ()
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Piotr PÅ‚atkowski: Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland
Sabina Szymczak: Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland
Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz: Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

No 73, GUT FME Working Paper Series A from Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology

Abstract: This paper describes the construction of a microlevel database on knowledge creation by higher education institutions (KC-HEI), accompanying the Global Knowledge Input-Output database (KIO, Davies et al., 2023). The database was created as part of Project Rethink GCS. KC-HEI links PATSTAT information on the patenting activity of 866 universities (HEIs) in 31 European countries over four decades (1980-2019), using citation records and patent quality indicators from OECD/STI Micro-data. KC-HEI makes possible analysis of the Institutions' innovation performance across 128 internationally comparable technological sectors and, separately, with respect to Artificial Intelligence (AI). We also develop a unique crosswalk between PATSTAT and ETER that combines KC-HEI with other institution-level datasets (such as ETER and RISIS) and allows us to build a parallel dataset covering 785 patenting and 2101 non-patenting universities in Europe between 2011 and 2019. We illustrate the potential of the KC-HEI database, providing key stylised facts on the role of universities in knowledge creation, while documenting extreme core-periphery patterns of university patenting in Europe and detecting several key university-level factors that reinforce this disparity.

Keywords: Patents; Innovation; Knowledge; Higher Education Institutions; University (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 O31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-06
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