Balancing industry collaboration and academic innovation: The contingent role of collaboration-specific attributes

This study highlights the effects of industry collaboration in enhancing academic innovation output. We exploit a unique longitudinal dataset on the 110 top U.S. research universities for the last 19years. Our empirical findings confirm that the relationship between the number of industry collaborat...

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Published inTechnological forecasting & social change Vol. 123; pp. 216 - 228
Main Author Lin, Jun-You
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Elsevier Inc 01.10.2017
Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects
Academic innovation
Collaboration
Collaboration breadth
Colleges & universities
Econometrics
Industry–university collaboration
Innovations
Knowledge capacity
Knowledge management
Measurement methods
Panel data
Poisson distribution
Regression analysis
Research facilities
Studies
University contribution
United States > US
University contribution
Knowledge capacity
Collaboration breadth
Industry–university collaboration
Academic innovation
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Summary:This study highlights the effects of industry collaboration in enhancing academic innovation output. We exploit a unique longitudinal dataset on the 110 top U.S. research universities for the last 19years. Our empirical findings confirm that the relationship between the number of industry collaborations and academic innovation is curvilinear. Moreover, we hypothesized and found that university contribution, collaboration breadth and knowledge capacity moderate the curvilinear relationship between the number of industry collaborations and academic innovation. Poisson, negative binomial and generalized negative binomial regressions are used to test the hypotheses in a panel data of 2090 university-year cases. Our results are robust to the three econometric methods, measures of variety of academic innovation and the findings support our prediction. •Factors related to academic innovation are identified.•The number of industry collaborations has a curvilinear relationship with academic innovation.•University contribution strengthens the benefits and lessens the costs of collaborations.•Industry collaborations also depend on collaboration breadth and knowledge capacity.
ISSN:0040-1625
1873-5509
DOI:10.1016/j.techfore.2016.03.016