Assessing the impact of university science parks on research productivity: Exploratory firm-level evidence from the United Kingdom

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1357-1369

  Siegel, Donald S ^a   Westhead, Paul ^b   Wright, Mike ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Productivity; R D; Science parks; University technology transfer

Indexed keywords

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PRODUCTIVITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

SCIENCE PARKS; SPILLOVERS;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 0141458060     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7187(03)00086-9     Document Type: Article

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