Research output from university-industry collaborative projects

We study collaborative and noncollaborative projects that are supported by government grants. First, we propose a theoretical framework to analyze optimal decisions in these projects. Second, we test our hypotheses with a unique data set containing academic publications and research funds for all ac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Banal Estañol, Albert, Macho Stadler, Inés|||0000-0002-2415-7972, Pérez Castrillo, David|||0000-0002-1840-7621
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:171304
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/171304
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1177/0891242412472535
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Industry-science links
Research collaborations
Basic versus applied research
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Sumario:We study collaborative and noncollaborative projects that are supported by government grants. First, we propose a theoretical framework to analyze optimal decisions in these projects. Second, we test our hypotheses with a unique data set containing academic publications and research funds for all academics at the major university engineering departments in the United Kingdom. We find that the type of the project (measured by its level of appliedness) increases the type of both the university and firm partners. Also, the quality of the project (number and impact of the publications) increases with the quality of the researcher and firm, and with the affinity in the partners' preferences. The collaboration with firms increases the quality of the project only when the firms' characteristics make them valuable partners.