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Access to universitiesâ public knowledge: Whoâs more regionalist?

Manuel Acosta (), Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro and Daniel Coronado

No 201405, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) Working Paper Series from INGENIO (CSIC-UPV)

Abstract: This paper tracks university-to-firm patent citations rather than the more usual patent-to-patent or paper-to-patent citations. It explains regional and non-regional citations as a function of firmsâ absorptive capacity and universitiesâ production capacity in the region rather than explaining citations as a function of distance between citing and cited regions. Using a dataset of European Union regions for the years 1997-2007, we find that fostering university R&D capacity increases the attractiveness of the local universityâs knowledge base to firms in the region, but also reduces wider searches for university knowledge. Increasing the absorptive capacity of local business encourages firms to access university knowledge from outside the region.

JEL-codes: O31 O33 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-05-15, Revised 2014-10-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-ipr, nep-pr~, nep-knm, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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