RT journal article
T1 Does technological diversification spur university patenting?
A1 Acosta Seró, Manuel
A1 Coronado Guerrero, Daniel
A1 Martínez Navarro, María Ángeles
A2 Economía General
K1 University patenting
K1 Technological diversification
K1 Entropy index
K1 Multilevel negative binomial model
K1 Knowledge production function
K1 European universities
AB Technological diversity, or the breadth of technological knowledge embeddedin patented inventions, refers to the range of different technological or economic fieldscovered by a patent. This paper explores the role of diversification scope in encouragingthe production of new patents in European universities by including the diversificationscope as an explanatory variable in a patent production function. We hypothesize that themore diversified the patented technology in the university, the greater the production ofnew patents in subsequent periods. To test this hypothesis we rely on a cross-sectionalsample of patents owned by 141 European universities across Europe in 2001–2004. Ourempirical findings support the hypothesis of diversification, which means that the productionof new patents can be spurred by promoting or stimulating greater levels oftechnological diversification. This result is robust to both the use of various measures ofdiversification and to different econometric specifications.
PB Springer
SN 0892-9912
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34198
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34198
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 08-nov-2026