RT journal article
T1 The Production of Academic Technological Knowledge: an Exploration at the Research Group Level
A1 Acosta Seró, Manuel
A1 Coronado Guerrero, Daniel
A1 León, M.Dolores
A1 Moreno Rodríguez, Pedro Jesús
A2 Economía General
K1 Collaboration
K1 Knowledge production function
K1 Patents
K1 Research group
AB Public research institutions have a key role in a knowledge-based society as they leadscientific research and generate patentable technology directly applicable to industrialproductive processes. In this paper, we address the latter role. Several well-knownpapers have dealt with the production of university patents at the level of universitiesand laboratories; however, despite the relevance of research groups in national researchsystems, their capacity as producers of patents has been neglected. In this paper, we fillthis gap by testing the effect of previous collaborations and the scientific background ofthe group on the production of knowledge, measured by the number of patents. In theframework of a knowledge production function, we estimate several empirical countmodels with a sample of 1120 research groups affiliated to the three major publicresearch institutions in Spain. Our findings suggest that the production of patents at theresearch group level is positively and significantly correlated with the variables capturingprivate collaboration and scientific background. The results also point to significantdifferences in the production of technological knowledge across institutions andareas of research.
PB Springer
SN 1868-7873
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34208
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34208
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 06-nov-2026