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University‐industry linkages: What are the determinants of distance in collaborations? *
Author(s) -
Muscio Alessandro
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00442.x
Subject(s) - business , knowledge transfer , marketing , regional science , public relations , political science , geography , knowledge management , computer science
In the last twenty years, universities' efforts to collaborate with industry and foster knowledge transfer have increased progressively. Many of these efforts have been directed at firms located at a distance from the university, and sometimes in a different country. Based on an original database of interviews with 197 Italian university departments, this paper determines the effects of geographical location, research performance and researcher mobility on the frequency of university‐industry collaborations and on the probability of departments engaging in distant collaborations.