Value creation in university-firm research collaborations: a matching approach

By Denisa Mindruta. 2008

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University-based technological opportunities are often exploited through joint corporate and academic entrepreneurship activities such as university-industry research collaborations. This paper explores the partner attributes that drive the matching of academic scientists and firms involved in these relationships. The paper models the formation of firm-faculty partnership as an endogenous selection process driven by synergy between partners' knowledge-creation capabilities. The main findings indicate that faculty-firm matching is multidimensional: firms and scientists complement each other in publishing capabilities but substitute each other in patenting skills. Furthermore, firms and scientists with specialized knowledge create more value by teaming with more knowledge-diversified partners. The paper contributes to the literature on university-industry knowledge transfer and, more generally, to the literature on alliance formation.

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Which Problems to Solve? Online Knowledge Sharing and Attention Allocation in Organizations (2014, unknown): “(Vissa, 2011), and firms and research scientists (Mindruta, 2013).”
Engaging Excellence? Effects of Faculty Quality on University Engagement with Industry (2011, unknown): “At the same time, collaboration involves competition in the sense that partners sort themselves into partnerships depending on their bargaining positions, which, in turn, depend on their characteristics (Mindruta, 2008).”
Conceptualizing academic entrepreneurship ecosystems: a review, analysis and extension of the literature (2018, background): “Similarly, Mindruta (2013) focuses on factors that predict faculty collaboration with small firms, especially in terms of publication and patenting.”
Academic collaborations and firm innovation performance in China: : The role of region-specific institutions (2015, background): “Although the number of potential combinations increases with increasing URI-firm collaboration, an excessive degree of university collaboration may significantly increase an EME’s governance, coordination and managerial costs (Mindruta, 2013).”
Universities and Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) as Sources of Knowledge for Innovative Firms in Peripheral Regions (2015, background): “…contributions highlight that incentives to collaboratewith industry are related to seniority, institutional expectations and rewards, the connection of the activity to the personal research programme of the researcher, and the economic importance of collaboration (for instance, see MINDRUTA, 2013).”