The effects of university-industry relationships and academic research on scientific performance: Synergy or substitution?

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 795-811

  Manjarrés Henríquez, Liney ^a   Gutiérrez Gracia, Antonio ^a   Carrión García, Andrés ^b   Vega Jurado, Jaider ^a  

^a INGENIO CSIC UPV Technical University of Valencia   (Spain)

^b Applied Research and Quality   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Scientific production; Traditional research activities; University lecturers; University industry relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 76049124413     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-009-9142-y     Document Type: Article

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