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A dataset on knowledge creation and patenting by European Higher Education Institutions (KC-HEI)

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  • Aleksandra Parteka

    (Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland)

  • Piotr PÅ‚atkowski

    (Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland)

  • Sabina Szymczak

    (Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland)

  • Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz

    (Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland)

Abstract

This paper describes the construction of a microlevel database on knowledge creation by higher education institutions (KC-HEI), accompanying the Global Knowledge Input-Output database (KIO, Davies et al., 2023). The database was created as part of Project Rethink GCS. KC-HEI links PATSTAT information on the patenting activity of 866 universities (HEIs) in 31 European countries over four decades (1980-2019), using citation records and patent quality indicators from OECD/STI Micro-data. KC-HEI makes possible analysis of the Institutions' innovation performance across 128 internationally comparable technological sectors and, separately, with respect to Artificial Intelligence (AI). We also develop a unique crosswalk between PATSTAT and ETER that combines KC-HEI with other institution-level datasets (such as ETER and RISIS) and allows us to build a parallel dataset covering 785 patenting and 2101 non-patenting universities in Europe between 2011 and 2019. We illustrate the potential of the KC-HEI database, providing key stylised facts on the role of universities in knowledge creation, while documenting extreme core-periphery patterns of university patenting in Europe and detecting several key university-level factors that reinforce this disparity.

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  • Aleksandra Parteka & Piotr PÅ‚atkowski & Sabina Szymczak & Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz, 2024. "A dataset on knowledge creation and patenting by European Higher Education Institutions (KC-HEI)," GUT FME Working Paper Series A 73, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology.
    • Handle: RePEc:gdk:wpaper:73
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    Keywords

    Patents; Innovation; Knowledge; Higher Education Institutions; University;
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    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
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions

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