Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Aridi, Anwar
Author-Email: aridi@worldbank.org
Author-Workplace-Name: World Bank, Europe and Central Asia Division
Author-Name: Querejazu, Daniel
Author-Email: querejazu@worldbank.org
Author-Workplace-Name: World Bank, Europe and Central Asia Division
Author-Name: Zuniga, Pluvia
Author-Email: zuniga@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT 
Title: Knowledge transfer activities and conditions for impact in Bulgarian public 
	 research institutions: A survey-based diagnostic
Abstract: This paper analyses the state of progress in knowledge and technology
	 transfer activities in Bulgarian public research organisations. It
	 explores the nature and development of research competences, engagement
	 in research collaboration, and technology transfer activities at public
	 research institutions and aims to identify the factors that enable or
	 constrain these activities. The results are based on a survey of public
	 researchers, public research organisations (PROs), and university
	 technology transfer offices (TTOs) in Bulgaria. Our findings show
	 important gaps in institutional governance (linking research with
	 industry demand), misalignments in academic incentives, and constraints
	 related to lack of funding and capacity. Our findings also highlight the
	 vital importance of mobility of researchers as catalyser of
	 collaborative research and technology transfer linkages in both types of
	 institutions and provides proposals for action in terms of policy and
	 institutional reform to improve the performance and impact of public
	 research.
Classification-JEL: O31, O33, O38, I23
Keywords: knowledge transfer, technology transfer, industry-science linkages, public
	 research organisations, Bulgaria
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20210527
Number: 2021-026
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2021/wp2021-026.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2021026