A Comparison of U.S. and European University-Industry Relations in the Life Sciences

By Jason Owen-Smith, Massimo Riccaboni, Fabio Pammolli, Walter W. Powell. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Statistics and Probability, Strategy and Management

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Betweenness centrality as a driver of preferential attachment in the evolution of research collaboration networks (2011, background): “Collaboration is one of the defining features of modern science in recent decades (Milojevic, 2010; Persson et al., 2004; Wagner, 2008).”
Institutional complementarity and inventive performance in nano science and technology (2007, background): “On the other hand, industry case studies on biotechnology (McKelvey 1996; Orsenigo 1990; Owen-Smith et al. 2002; Zucker and Darby 1996), chemical and electrical engineering (Kenney and Goe 2004; Mowery and Rosenberg 1998) semiconductor and laser (Klepper 2001), and medical instruments (Trajtenberg,…”
Networks and Economic life (2003, background): “1 There is a burgeoning literature in both physics and sociology on network topology and dynamics (Watts and Strogatz, 1998, Albert and Barabási, 2002; Owen-Smith et al, 2002).”
Cultivating Research Universities and Industrial Linkages in China: The Case of Shanghai (2007, background): “Part of the difference may be attributed to the cultural predisposition held by some universities to contribute to knowledge for its own sake and their unwillingness to allow commercial interest to influence research (Feldman & Desrochers, 2004; Owen-Smith et al., 2002).”
Searching high and low: what types of firms use universities as a source of innovation? (2004, unknown): “view that industry-university relations in Europe may lag behind the US, yet differences in the data on university-industry interaction between Europe and the US make comparisons extremely difficult (Owen-Smith et al., 2002).”
Networks of innovators within and across borders. Evidence from patent data (2013, background): “publications between NUTS2 regions in 33 European countries for the period 2000-2007. They find that the negative effect of distance on inter-regional collaborations increases over the focus period and that the country-border effect decrease, though not statistically significantly.(3) Singh & Marx (”
Managing and incentivizing research commercialization in Chinese Universities (2010, background): “Several general features of the American system of higher education also emerge as conducive to university–industry partnerships: decentralization, competition, and the coupling of research and graduate education (Feller 1999; Mowery et al. 2004; Owen-Smith et al. 2002; Shane 2004).”
The productivity crisis in pharmaceutical R&D (2011, background): “The measurement problem is exacerbated by the growing division of innovative labour, the number of R&D collaborations and the number of private and public research organizations that span different countrie”
The expanding role of university patenting in the life sciences: assessing the importance of experience and connectivity (2003, background): “Academic technologies are central to the R&D efforts of these small science-based firms, and universities are central players in the inter-organizational networks that constitute the industry’s ‘locus of innovation’ (Powell et al., 1996; Owen-Smith et al., 2002).”
Distant networking: The knowledge acquisition strategies of 'out-cluster' biotechnology firms (2005, background): “However, there is evidence that biotechnology firms are also more likely to establish connections outside the regional environment, given the global nature of their markets and the diversified and fast changing nature of the science base needed to innovate (Owen-Smith et al., 2002).”