University-Industry Knowledge Transfer and Network Patterns in Romania: Does Knowledge Supply Fit SMEs' Regional Profiles?

Cristina Maria Serbanica, Daniela Constantin and Gabriela Dragan

European Planning Studies, 2015, vol. 23, issue 2, 292-310

Abstract: Universities' potential to contribute to regional value creation has been extensively discussed so far and significant literature has been devoted to celebrated cases in highly industrialized and developed countries. Assuming that it would be misleading to generalize from "exceptional" cases, some authors have focused their attention specifically on the influence of universities in less developed areas regions and countries, where university-industry relations are far from being a Triple Helix. This paper focuses on the mechanisms of university-industry knowledge transfer (KT) in Romania, a post-communist country with relatively weak regional innovation performances, except for the capital region Bucharest-Ilfov. The purpose of the study is to construct an index to compare university-industry KT across the eight Romanian regions. Data to be aggregated are collected from 90 Romanian higher education institutions and refer to their KT potential in terms of human, financial and relational inputs, outputs and outcomes (patent applications, new products and services, spin-offs and commercial income). Finally, universities' regional KT performances are compared to small and medium enterprises territorial patterns and issuing policy implications are discussed .

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2013.862215

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