IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/mul/j0hje1/doi10.1430-37675y2012i2p255-282.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

University-Industry cooperation: an analysis on the co-generated patents in Italy

Author

Listed:
  • Daniele Cerrato
  • Roberto Parente
  • Michele Petrone

Abstract

The academic research system shows a significant increase in the generation of new patents, but the capacity to transfer these patents to firms interested in their economic exploitation is still limited. It is therefore interesting to investigate the factors affecting firms' involvement in the academic research that could lead to patentable results. Drawing on data from a sample of 282 patents from academic inventors of seven Italian universities, this paper focuses on four possible drivers of university-industry collaboration: a) the quality of the academic inventors' basic research; b) their propensy for the applied research; c) the innovative capability of the regional industrial system; d) the existence of local technology clusters. The results suggest that factors relating to the local industrial environment play a significant role in favoring firms' involvement in academic patents. In addition, a greater propensity of the researchers to applied research attracts firms' interest, while the quality of the basic research does not seem to affect firms' decisions to collaborate.

Suggested Citation

  • Daniele Cerrato & Roberto Parente & Michele Petrone, 2012. "University-Industry cooperation: an analysis on the co-generated patents in Italy," L'industria, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 2, pages 255-282.
    • Handle: RePEc:mul:j0hje1:doi:10.1430/37675:y:2012:i:2:p:255-282
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1430/37675
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1430/37675
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Technology Transfer; Patents; Academic Inventors; Regional Industrial System; Technology Cluster. JEL Classification: O31; O34; L24;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
    • L24 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Contracting Out; Joint Ventures

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mul:j0hje1:doi:10.1430/37675:y:2012:i:2:p:255-282. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.rivisteweb.it/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.