Theimpact of industry collaboration on research: Evidence from engineering academics in the UK

Albert Banal-Estanol, Mireia Jofre-Bonet and Cornelia Meissner
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Cornelia Lawson

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: We study the impact of university-industry research collaborations on academic output, in terms of productivity and direction of research. We report findings from a longitudinal dataset on all the researchers from the engineering departments in the UK in the last 20 years. We control for the endogeneity caused by the dynamic nature of research and the existence of reverse causality. Our results indicate that researchers with industrial links publish significantly more. Productivity, though, is higher for low levels of industry involvement. Moreover, growing ties with the industry skew research towards a more applied approach.

Keywords: industry-science links; research collaborations; basic vs. applied research. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 L31 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-09, Revised 2010-08
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