Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Rivera, Rene
Author-Email: renerivera72@yahoo.com
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Xochimilco
Author-Name: Sampedro, Jose Luis
Author-Email: sampedroh@yahoo.com.mx
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Xochimilco
Author-Name: Dutrenit, Gabriela
Author-Email: dutrenit@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Xochimilco
Author-Name: Ekboir, Javier Mario
Author-Email: jekboir@prodigy.net.mx 
Author-Name: Vera-Cruz, Alexandre O.
Author-Email: vera-cruz@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Xochimilco
Title: How productive are academic researchers in agriculture-related sciences? The 
	 Mexican case
Abstract: This paper explores the effect of commercial farmers-academic 
	 researchers linkages on research productivity in fields related to 
	 agriculture. Using original data and econometric analysis, our findings 
	 show a positive and significant relationship between intensive linkages 
	 with a small number of commercial farmers and research productivity, 
	 when this is defined as publications in ISI journals. This evidence 
	 seems contrary to other contributions that argue that strong ties with 
	 the business sector reduce research productivity and distort the 
	 original purposes of university, i.e., conducting basic research and 
	 preparing highly-trained professionals. When research productivity is 
	 defined more broadly adding other types of research outputs, the 
	 relationship is also positive and significant confirming the argument 
	 that close ties between public research institutions and businesses 
	 foster the emergence of new ideas that can be translated into 
	 innovations with commercial and/or social value. Another important 
	 finding is that researchers in public institutions produce several types 
	 of research outputs; therefore, measuring research productivity only by 
	 published ISI papers misses important dimensions of research activities.
Classification-JEL: O31, O32, Q16, Q18
Keywords: agriculture sector, research productivity, university-business 
	 sector interaction, university-industry collaboration
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2009
Number: 2009-038
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2009/wp2009-038.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2009038