EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Coexistence of university-industry relations and academic research: Barrier to or incentive for scientific productivity

Liney Manjarrés-Henríquez (), Antonio Gutiérrez-Gracia and Jaider Vega-Jurado ()
Additional contact information
Liney Manjarrés-Henríquez: Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación
Antonio Gutiérrez-Gracia: Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación

Scientometrics, 2008, vol. 76, issue 3, No 9, 576 pages

Abstract: Abstract In this article we analyse whether university-industry relations (UIR) are penalising research activity and inhibiting university researchers’ scientific productivity and, if so, to what extent. The analysis is based on a case study of two Spanish universities. We find that UIR exercise a positive effect on university scientific productivity only when they are based on the development of R&D contracts, and when the funds obtained through these activities do not exceed 15% of the researcher’s total budget. We also find that researchers who combine research and UIR activities obtain higher funding from competitive public sources than that engage only in research. In addition, their average scientific productivity is higher and they achieve higher status within their institutions than those members of faculty who concentrate only on research.

Date: 2008
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (17)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11192-007-1877-7 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

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:spr:scient:v:76:y:2008:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-007-1877-7

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/11192

DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1877-7

Access Statistics for this article

Scientometrics is currently edited by Wolfgang Glänzel

More articles in Scientometrics from Springer, Akadémiai Kiadó
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().

 
Page updated 2024-07-01
Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:76:y:2008:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-007-1877-7