ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ON FIRMS’ INNOVATION

Paola Cardamone (), Valeria Pupo and Fernanda Ricotta

No 201403, Working Papers from Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF

Abstract: This paper analyses the influence of universities on Italian firms’ probability to innovate. Using firm-level data, we focus on institutionalised technology transfer (TT) activities in universities, namely spin-offs, patents and research contracts. Results show that TT activities play a significant role in the probability to innovate by Italian manufacturing firms located in the same province as the university. Nevertheless, the effect is not uniform: the contribution of university TT activities to the probability of firms’ innovating is concentrated in certain territorial areas (North-East and Centre) and sectors (science based and scale intensive) and among firms that are large.

Keywords: Universities; Technology transfer; Manufacturing firms; Innovation; Spillovers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2014-04
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