University-industry research collaborations in the UK: Bibliometric trends

By J. Calvert, P. Patel. 2003

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Despite increasing interest amongst policy makers and academics, there have been few attempts at gathering systematic data on the nature and extent of research collaborations between universities and industry. This paper uses joint scientific publications as an indicator of such collaborations in the UK over 20 years. It finds that, although there has been a rapid increase in the volume of university-industry collaborations since the 1980s, the biggest increases were before the major policy measures of the mid-1990s. An important factor would appear to be the growing need for firms, especially non-British firms, to collaborate with leading-edge academic research in promising areas of new technology. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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University-industry linkages in the UK: What are the factors underlying the variety of interactions with industry? (2007, background): “al, 2001), and in joint scientific publications ( Calvert and Patel, 2003 ).”
Universities in National Innovation Systems (2006, background): “13 Calvert and Patel found that the 1981/85 – 1986/90 period was characterized by the most rapid growth in such co-authorship. This finding is particularly interesting since the 1980s were characterized by cuts in UK central government spending on higher education, and the 1990s were a period of mor”