 Is university-industry collaboration biased by sex criteria?Nuria Calvo, Sara Fernández-López and David Rodeiro-Pazos Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 2019, vol. 17, issue 4, 408-420 Abstract: This paper studies the attitudes and decisions of research groups led by men or women towards the collaboration with firms in research and development joint projects. We worked with a sample of 420 research groups of eight regions of Spain, France and Portugal in a sequential process. First, we studied the interest of the research groups to collaborate and, then, if the final decision of collaborating with firms changed according to the sex criteria. The results show that women are worse positioned in the social networks of collaboration and commercialization with industry than men are. Research groups led by men have around 10% higher probability of showing interest in R&D cooperation with firms. However, when men and women leaders of research groups have the same motivation to collaborate, they do not differ in their decision of collaborating. These results evidence different initial attitudes towards university-industry collaboration according to sex criteria. Date: 2019 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:tkmrxx:v:17:y:2019:i:4:p:408-420 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/14778238.2018.1557024 Access Statistics for this article Knowledge Management Research & Practice is currently edited by Giovanni Schiuma More articles in Knowledge Management Research & Practice from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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