Entrepreneurial Scientists and their Publication Performance. An Insight from Belgium

Malwina Mejer

Working Papers ECARES from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Abstract: Intensification of university-industry interactions raises concerns about the potential negative impact it may have on the pace of scientific progress. This paper analyzes the relationship between academic patenting, research collaboration and quality of scientic output in a panel of 268 patenting and non-patenting life-science researchers from five universities in Belgium. Results suggest that scientists benefit from research collaboration with industry as witnessed by higher productivity and higher annual citation frequencies. Patenting positively correlates with higher quality of scientific output, except when industry is directly involved in the patenting process. In contrast to previous studies we do not end a positive relationship between patenting and citations.

Keywords: patenting; scientific publication; quality; collaboration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I23 O33 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 p.
Date: 2011-07
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