Academia-Business Links: European Policy Strategies and Lessons Learnt

299 Pages·2004·0.963 MB·English

by  Rüdiger Wink (eds.)

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Academia–Business Links
European Policy Strategies and Lessons Learnt
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Rüdiger Wink
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Academia-business links: European policy strategies and lessons learnt /
edited by Rüdiger Wink.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Industry and education–Europe. 2. Higher education and state–Europe.
I. Wink, Rüdiger.
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables viii
Notes on the Contributors x
1 Academia–Business Interactions in Europe: 1
An Introduction
Rüdiger Wink
Part I The Changed Environment of Universities
2 Spin-offs, Start-ups and Networks in UK Universities 11
Douglas Hague
3 Are Research Spin-offs a Local Phenomenon? 28
Empirical Findings from Germany
Jürgen Egeln, Sandra Gottschalk, Christian Rammer and
Alfred Spielkamp
4 Academia and Business: Links and Lags in Spain 48
Javier Alfonso-Gil and Antonia Sáez-Cala
5 Measuring and Funding the ‘Third Mission’: The UK 74
Policy Debate
Jordi Molas-Gallart
6 The Role of Intellectual Property Rights Regimes for 90
R&D Cooperation between Industry and Academia
Ulrich Blum and Simone Müller
Part II Academia–Business Linkages and Industrial
Development
7 Why Invest in Biotechnology? German and British 107
Biotechnology Policy Compared
Rebecca Harding
8 Geographical Proximity and Circulation of Knowledge 137
through Inter-Firm Cooperation
Delphine Gallaud and André Torre
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vi Contents
9 Evaluating the Future Impact of New Technologies: 159
The Case of Biophotonics in Germany
Michael Kraus and Guido Benzler
10 The Matrix INT (Instruments and Needs of Technology) 168
and the Evaluation of Innovation Policies
Riccardo Cappellin
Part III Academia–Business Linkages and the Regional
Dimension
11 The Territorial Development of Innovation Support 197
Assets through University–Business Interactions:
Towards a Dynamic Model
Paul Benneworth and Stuart Dawley
12 Regional Innovation System Barriers and the Rise of 224
Boundary-Crossing Institutions
Phil Cooke
13 Universities as Hubs to Global Knowledge Pipelines? 246
A Strategy-Focused Perspective on Regional University
Policies
Rüdiger Wink
14 Enlarging the Scale of Knowledge and Innovation 263
Networks: Theoretical Perspectives, Methodological
Approaches and Policy Issues
Riccardo Cappellin and Michael Steiner
Index 287
List of Figures
6.1 The cube of instruments 92
6.2 The cube of institutional arrangements 93
6.3 Basic types of market uncertainty 95
6.4 Classification of quality characteristics 96
6.5 Agency problem 99
6.6 New regulation of intellectual property rights 101
9.1 Biophotonic at the cross-section of technologies 161
9.2 Limiting factors in biophotonics 162
9.3 Expected growth in biophotonics staff 163
9.4 Contribution of biophotonics to overall turnover 164
10.1 The combination of three dimensions in the design 170
of innovation policies
10.2 The profile of individual industries/technologies, 176
firms and regions
10.3 Four decision-making models 177
10.4 The approach of the Matrix INT 181
10.5 From case-study characteristics to innovation 183
policy instruments
10.6 Shift to a new profile within the regions– 187
technologies–firms space
11.1 The dual innovation spin-off loop in 201
knowledge-intensive business services
vii
List of Tables
3.1 Survey on start-ups in knowledge-intensive 32
industries in Germany
3.2 Distribution of all start-ups, start-ups in 33
knowledge-intensive industries, public research
spin-offs, and incubators of public research spin-offs
by type of region
3.3 Distribution of public research spin-offs by distance 34
to their incubator
3.4 Determinants of spin-offs’ decision to leave the 37
incubator’s region
3.5 Negative binomial regressions for determinants of 42
the number of start-ups in German regions 1996–2000
4.1 Technology balance of payments in oecd countries 52
4.2 Total R&D personnel 53
4.3 R&D expenditures 54
4.4 High-tech exports and income and payments by 56
licences in EU countries
4.5 Patents requests, R&D staff and patents/R&D staff 59
ratio (1994–8)
4.6 R&D staff and reasons to develop projects within the 60
Spanish National Plan (2000–3)
4.7 R&D staff by Spanish regions (1994–2000) 62
4.8 R&D expenditures by Spanish regions (1994–2000) 63
7.1 The biotechnology policy framework in Germany 117
and Britain
7.2 Overall levels of science spending in Germany and 119
the UK
7.3 Total government budget allocations toR&D 120
7.4 Overview of different sources and modes of funding 121
for R&D in selected countries, 1999
7.5 University–industry policy priorities in Germany and 122
the UK
7.6 Attitudes towards university–industry links in 125
Germany and the UK
7.7 Regional clusters in Germany and the UK 129
viii
List of Tables ix
9.1 Summary of the relevant factors in the development 166
of technologies
10.1 Typologies of industries and factors influencing their 172
needs on learning
10.2 Typology of firms and factors influencing their needs 173
on learning
10.3 Typology of regions and factors influencing their 175
needs on learning
10.4 Policy-making approaches and instruments of 178
innovation policies
10.5 Problems and factors influencing needs of innovation 180
policies
10.6 MatrixINT: Comparison of two extreme cases 189
11.1 Size and formation date of firms interviewed in 207
the sample
11.2 Reasons for the company’s formation and company 207
sector
11.3 Number of firms at each sophistication level in the 207
sample
11.4 Range of innovation support organizations used by 209
novice innovators
11.5 Participation of inexperienced firms in particular 210
forms of mutual innovation support activity
11.6 Ways in which local universities benefited from their 212
linkages to experienced innovators
11.7 Firms’ contributions to universities’ innovation 216
process segmented by firm sophistication level
11.8 Types of ‘response’ required by universities to supply 219
technology transfer opportunities for firms at each
sophistication level