Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Es-Sadki, Nordine
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Author-Name: Arundel, Anthony 
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Title: The impact of the regional environment on the knowledge transfer outcomes of public
	 research organisations: preliminary results for Europe
Abstract: We use survey data for 238 European universities and 24 research institutes to
	 examine the effects of regional factors at the NUTS-1 or NUTS-2 level on three
	 knowledge transfer outcomes of public research organisations: the number of licence
	 agreements, start-ups and R&D agreements with companies. We find that (1) a larger
	 share of regional employment in high and medium-high technology manufacturing
	 sectors in the same region as the public research organisation has a positive impact
	 on the number of licence agreements. (2) A larger share of employment in knowledge
	 intensive services has a positive impact on the number of start-ups and research 
	 agreements, but a negative impact on licence agreements. (3) Competition as measured
	 by the number of public research organisations in a region has a negative impact on
	 all three outcomes.
	 This paper draws on 2012-2013 survey data from ASTP-PROTON and from a Knowledge
	 Transfer survey conducted for the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research,
	 Kommersialiserring av offentlig finansiert forskning - datainnsamling,
	 systematisering og analyse for Forskningsbarometeret, under sub-contract for DAMVAD. 
Keywords: Technology transfer, Public research organisations, PRI, University-industry
	 technology transfer, technology transfer offices, regional location, regional
	 effects 
Classification-JEL: I23, O32, M13, L24
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2015
Number: 2015-017
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2015/wp2015-017.pdf
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File-Size: 275 kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2015017