INSTITUTE OF INNOVATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Do university-industry co-publication volumes correspond with university funding from business firms? Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro | Leiden, 4 September 2014 Co-authors: Alfredo Yegros-Yegros, Mayte López-Ferrer, Robert J.W. Tijssen
In this presentation we show the results of a case study in which we tried to analyze the extent to which business funds received by universities correlate to the university-industry co-publications. The case study focuses on the technical university of Valencia.
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INSTITUTE OF INNOVATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Do university-industry co-publication volumes
correspond with university funding from
business firms?Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro | Leiden, 4 September 2014
Co-authors: Alfredo Yegros-Yegros, Mayte López-Ferrer, Robert J.W. Tijssen
Introduction
• University-industry interactions are a slightly
controversial source of potential benefits, among other,
to partially contribute to economic development
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• Different indicators to monitor and foster university-
industry interactions (contract research, R&D projects,
patent licenses, creation of start-up companies…)
Major drawback Not freely available
University-industry co-publications
(UICs)
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• One of the very few sources for gathering aggregate-
level proxy measures of university-industry interaction
patterns and trends (Tijssen et al., 2009; Tijssen, 2011)
• Some studies rely entirely on UICs to capture
university-industry interactions
– Analyses of UICs (Calvert and Patel, 2003; Ponds et al 2007)
– Effect of UICs on university commercialization technology
(Wong and Singh, 2013)
Validity of UICs as proxy of university-
industry interactions
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• UICs are a particular type of co-authorship, only partial
indicators of research collaboration (Katz and Martin,
1997)
– One third of the companies providing funding to the university
had not UICs with the university –only 16% of the companies
publishing UICs also provided funding (Lundberg et al. 2006)
• Previous attempts of validation are scarce
– Collaborations might not produce UICs
– Some UICs might not necessarily entail collaboration
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Research question
• Our objective is to contribute to prove whether or not UICs are
good proxies of university-industry interactions
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Do UIC volumes correspond with university funding from
business firms?
• Research question
Business funding is associated with some of the most