This paper analyses the influence of universities on Italian firms’ probability to innovate. Using firm-level data, we focus on institutionalised technology transfer (TT) activities in universities, namely research contracts, patents and spin-offs. Results show that TT activities play a significant role in the probability to innovate by Italian manufacturing firms located inthe same province of the university. This result is not uniform, but particularly applies to firms in the North-East and the Centre of Italy, and firms medium-large belonging to the scale intensive and science based sectors of the Pavitt classification.
Exploring the relationship between university and innovation: evidence from Italian firms
PUPO, Valeria;RICOTTA, Fernanda
2013-01-01
Abstract
This paper analyses the influence of universities on Italian firms’ probability to innovate. Using firm-level data, we focus on institutionalised technology transfer (TT) activities in universities, namely research contracts, patents and spin-offs. Results show that TT activities play a significant role in the probability to innovate by Italian manufacturing firms located inthe same province of the university. This result is not uniform, but particularly applies to firms in the North-East and the Centre of Italy, and firms medium-large belonging to the scale intensive and science based sectors of the Pavitt classification.File in questo prodotto:
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