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University Technology Transfer and Manufacturing Innovation: The Case of I taly
Author(s) -
Cardamone Paola,
Pupo Valeria,
Ricotta Fernanda
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/ropr.12125
Subject(s) - technology transfer , industrial organization , business , spin offs , scale (ratio) , center (category theory) , focus (optics) , economic geography , regional science , marketing , economics , international trade , geography , chemistry , physics , cartography , optics , crystallography
This article analyzes the influence of universities on Italian firms' probability to innovate. Using firm‐level data, we focus on institutionalized technology transfer (TT) activities in universities, namely spin‐offs, patents, and research contracts. Results show that TT activities play a significant role in the probability to innovate by Italian manufacturing firms located in the same province as the university. Nevertheless, the effect is not uniform: the contribution of university TT activities to the probability of firms' innovating is concentrated in certain territorial areas (North‐East and Center) and sectors (science based and scale intensive) and among firms that are large.