Research excellence and university-industry collaboration in UK science parks

Research Evaluation

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 181-196

  Minguillo, David ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Incubators; RandD collaboration; Science and research parks; UK; University business interaction; University industry collaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942237035     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvu032     Document Type: Article

References (96)

1. Abramo, G., D'Angelo, C. A. and Solazzi, M. (2011) 'A Bibliometric Tool to Assess the Regional Dimension of University-Industry Research Collaborations', Scientometrics, 91/3: 955-75.
2. Arora, A. and Gambardella, A. (1994) 'Evaluating Technological Information and Utilizing It: Scientific Knowledge, Technological Capability, and External Linkages in Biotechnology', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1: 91-114.
3. Arundel, A. and Geuna, A. (2004) 'Proximity and the Use of Public Science by Iinnovative European Firms', Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 13/6: 559-80.
4. Bakouros, Y., Mardas, D. and Varsakelis, N. (2002) 'Science Park, a High Tech Fantasy?: An Analysis of the Science Parks of Greece', Technovation, 22: 123-8.
5. Beise, M. and Stahl, H. (1999) 'Public Research and Industrial Innovations in Germany', Research Policy, 28: 397-422.
6. Bigliardi, B., Dormio, A. I., Nosella, A. and Petroni, G. (2006) 'Assessing science parks' performances: directions from selected Italian case studies', Technovation, 26/4: 489-505.
7. Bjerregaard, T. (2010) 'Industry and Academia in Convergence: Micro-Institutional Dimensions of RandD Collaboration', Technovation, 30/2: 100-8, Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/ j.technovation.2009.11.002.
8. Bøllingtoft, A. (2012) 'The Bottom-Up Business Incubator: Leverage to Networking and Cooperation Practices in a Self-Generated, Entrepreneurial-Enabled Environment', Technovation, 32/5: 304-15. Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/ j.technovation.2011.11.005.
9. Bøllingtoft, A. and Ulhøi, J. P. (2005) 'The Networked Business Incubator-Leveraging Entrepreneurial Agency?' Journal of Business Venturing, 20/2: 265-90.
10. -. (2010) 'The Networked Business Incubator - Leveraging Entrepreneurial Agency?', Journal of Business Venturing, 20/2005: 265-90.
11. Boschma, R. (2005) 'Proximity and Innovation: A Critical Assessment', Regional Studies, 39: 61-74.
12. Breschi, S. and Catalini, C. (2010) 'Tracing the Links between Science and Technology: An Exploratory Analysis of Scientists' and Inventors' Networks', Research Policy, 39/1: 14-26.
13. Caraça, J., Lundvall, B.-A?. and Mendonça, S. (2009) 'The Changing Role of Science in the Innovation Process: From Queen to Cinderella?', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 76/6: 861-7. Elsevier Inc.
14. Cheng, F. et al. (2014) 'Science Parks and the Co-location of High-tech Small-and Medium-sized Firms in China's Shenzhen', Urban Studies, 51/5: 1073-89.
15. Cockburn, I. M. and Henderson, R. M. (1998) 'Absorptive Capacity, Coauthoring Behavior, and the Organization of Research in Drug Discovery', The Journal of Industrial Economics, 46/2: 157-82. Wiley Online Library.
16. Cohen, W., Nelson, R. R. and Walsh, J. P. (2002) 'Links and Impacts: The Influence of Public Research on Industrial RandD', Management Science, 48/1: 1-23.
17. Cooke, P. (2001) 'Biotechnology Clusters in the UK: Lessons from Localisation in the Commercialisation of Science', Small Business Economics, 17: 43-59.
18. -. (2005a) 'Regional Knowledge Capabilities and Open Innovation: Regional Innovation Systems and Clusters in the Asymmetric Knowledge Economy'. In: Breschi, S. and Malerba, F. (eds) Clusters, Networks, and Innovation, 499. New York: Oxford University Press.
19. -. (2005b) 'Regionally Asymmetric Knowledge Capabilities and Open Innovation Exploring "Globalisation 2" - A New Model Of Industry Organisation', Research Policy, 34/8: 1128-49, DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2004.12.005.
20. Cooke, P. and Leydesdorff, L. (2006) 'Regional Development in the Knowledge-Based Economy: The Construction of Advantage', The Journal of Technology Transfer, 31/1: 5-15.
21. Crow, M. and Bozeman, B. (1998) Limited by Design: RandD Laboratories in the US National Innovation System. New York: Columbia University Press.
22. Dyson, J. (2010) Ingenious Britain: Making the UK the Leading High Tech Exporter in Europe. London: Russel Group.
23. Etzkowitz, H. (2008) The Triple Helix: University-Industry-Government Innovation in Action. New York: Routledge.
24. Etzkowitz, H. et al. (2000) 'The Future of the University and the University of the Future: Eevolution of Ivory Tower to Entrepreneurial Paradigm', Research Policy, 29/2: 313-30.
25. Felsenstein, D. (1994) University-Related Science Parks - "Seedbeds" or "Enclaves" of Innovation?' Technovation, 14/2: 131-3.
26. Ferguson, R. and Olofsson, C. (2004) 'Science Parks and the Development of NTBFs - Location, Survival and Growth', The Journal of Technology Transfer, 29: 5-17.
27. Fukugawa, N. (2006) 'Science Parks in Japan and their Value-Added Contributions to New Technology-based Firms', International Journal of Industrial Organization, 24/2: 381-400.
28. Gay, B. and Dousset, B. (2005) 'Innovation and Network Structural Dynamics: Study of the Alliance Network of a Major Sector of the Biotechnology Industry', Research Policy, 34/10: 1457-75.
29. Godin, B. and Gingras, Y. (2000) 'The Place of Universities in the System of Knowledge Production', Research Policy, 29/2: 273-8.
30. Guimera, R. and Amaral, L. (2005) 'Functional Cartography of Complex Metabolic Networks', Nature, 433: 895-900.
31. Guimera, R., Sales-Pardo, M. and Amaral, L. (2007) 'Classes of Complex Networks Defined by Role-to-Role Connectivity Profiles', Nature Physics, 3: 63-9.
32. Hauser, H. (2010) The Current and Future Role of Technology and Innovation Centres in the UK, p. 29. London: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
33. Hansen, M. T. et al. (2010) 'Networked Incubators. Hothouses of the New Economy', Harvard Business Review, 78/5: 74-84, 199.
34. HEFCE. (2009) Higher Education - Business and Community Interaction Survey 2007-2008. London: HEFCE.
35. -. (2010a) Higher Education - Business and Community Interaction Survey 2008-2009. London: HEFCE.
36. -. (2010b) Regional profiles of higher education 2007-2008. London: HEFCE.
37. Hicks, D. (1995) 'Published Papers, Tacit Competencies and Corporate Management of the Public/Private Character of Knowledge', Industrial and Corporate Change, 4: 401-24. DOI: 10.1093/icc/4.2.401.
38. Hu, M.-C. (2011) 'Evolution of Knowledge Creation and Diffusion: The Revisit of Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park', Scientometrics, 88/3: 949-77.
39. Hung, W. C. (2012) 'Measuring the Use of Public Research in Firm RandD in the Hsinchu Science Park', Scientometrics, 92: 63-73.
40. Kasabov, E. and Delbridge, R. (2008) 'Innovation, Embeddedness and Policy: Evidence from Life Sciences in Three UK Regions', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 20/2: 185-200.
41. Katz, J. S. and Martin, B. R. (1997) 'What is Research Collaboration?' Research Policy, 26/1: 1-18.
42. Lambert, R. (2003) Lambert Review of Business-University Collaboration. Norwich: H. M. Treasury.
43. Leibovitz, J. (2004) '"Embryonic" Knowledge-based Clusters and Cities: The Case of Biotechnology in Scotland', Urban Studies, 41/5-6: 1133-55.
44. Leydesdorff, L. and Meyer, M. (2010) 'The Decline of University Patenting and the End of the Bayh-Dole Effect', Scientometrics, 83/2: 355-62. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0001-6.
45. Liang, L. et al. (2011) 'The Role of Chinese Universities in Enterprise-University Research Collaboration', Scientometrics, 90/1: 253-69.
46. Lindelöf, P. and Löfsten, H. (2004) 'Proximity as a Resource Base for Competitive Advantage: University-Industry Links for Technology Transfer', The Journal of Technology Transfer, 29/3/4: 311-26.
47. Link, A. N. and Scott, J. T. (2003a) 'U.S. Science Parks: the Diffusion of an Innovation and its Effects on the Academic Missions of Universities', International Journal of Industrial Organization, 21/9: 1323-56.
48. -. (2003b) 'The Growth of Research Triangle Park', Most, 167-75.
49. -. (2006) 'U.S. University Research Parks', Journal of Productivity Analysis, 25/1-2: 43-55, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-006-7126-x.
50. -. (2007) 'The Economics of University Research Parks', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 23/4: 661-74.
51. Löfsten, H. and Lindelöf, P. (2005) 'RandD Networks and Product Innovation Patterns-Academic and Non-Academic New Technology-Based Firms on Science Parks', Technovation, 25/9: 1025-37.
52. Malo, S. (2009) 'The Contribution of (not so) Public Research To Commercial Innovations In The Field Of Combinatorial Chemistry', Research Policy, 38/6: 957-70.
53. Mansfield, E. (1992) 'Academic research and industrial innovation : A further note', Research Policy, 3: 295-6.
54. Meyer, M. (2000) 'Does Science Push Technology? Patents Citing Scientific Literature', Research Policy, 29/3: 409-34.
55. Minguillo, D. (2013) Mapping RandD Support Infrastructures: A Scientometric and Webometric Study of UK Science Parks. UK: Statistical Cybermetric RG, University of Wolverhampton.
56. Minguillo, D. and Thelwall, M. (2011) 'The Entrepreneurial Role of the University: A Link Analysis of York Science Park'. In: Noyons, E., Ngulube, P. and Leta, J. (eds) Proceedings of the ISSI 2001 Conference-13th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Durban, South Africa, South Africa, 4-8 July, pp. 570-83.
57. -. (2012) 'Mapping the Network Structure of Science Parks: An Exploratory Study of Cross-Sectoral Interactions Reflected on the Web', Aslib Proceedings, 64/4: 332-57. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00012531211244716.
58. -. (2013) 'Industry Research Production and Linkages with Academia: Evidence from UK science parks', ISSI 2013 Conference-14th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. Austria: Vienna.
59. Minguillo, D., Tijssen, R. and Thelwall, M. (2014) 'Do Science Parks Promote Research and Technology? A Scientometric Analysis of the UK', Scientometrics, 1-25. Springer Netherlands. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1435-z.
60. Miotti, L. and Sachwald, F. (2003) 'Co-operative RandD: Why and With Whom? Research Policy, 32/8: 1481-99.
61. Narin, F. and Hamilton, K. (1997) 'The Increasing Linkage between US Technology and Public Science', Research Policy, 26: 317-30.
62. Nelson, R. R. (1990) 'Capitalism as An Engine of Progress', Research Policy, 19: 193-214, DOI: 10.1016/0048-7333(90)90036-6.
63. Nowotny, H., Scott, P. and Gibbons, M. (2001) Re-thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty. Cambridge: Polity Press.
64. Noyons, E. C. M., Moed, H. F. and Luwel, M. (1999) 'Combining Mapping and Citation Analysis for Evaluative Bibliometric Purposes: A Bibliometric Study', Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50/2: 115-31.
65. PACEC. (2009) Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Role of HEFCE/OSI Third Stream Funding, Cambridge, Report prepared by PACEC and the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Higher Education Funding Council of England, Cambridge.
66. Perkmann, M. et al. (2013) 'Academic Engagement and Commercialisation: A Review of the Literature on University-Industry Relations', Research Policy, 42/2: 423-42. Elsevier B.V. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2012.09.007.
67. Phan, P. (2005) 'Science Parks and Incubators: Observations, Synthesis and Future Research', Journal of Business Venturing, 20/2: 165-82. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2003.12.001.
68. Polidoro, F. and Theeke, M. (2012) 'Getting Competition Down to a Science: The Effects of Technological Competition on Firms' Scientific Publications', Organization Science, 23: 1135-53. DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0684.
69. Porter, M. E. (2000) 'Location, Competition, and Economic Development: Local Clusters in a Global Economy. Economic Development Quarterly, 14/1: 15-34.
70. Quintas, P., Wield, D. and Massey, D. (1992) 'Academic-Industry Links and Innovation: Questioning the Science Park Model', Technovation, 12/3: 161-75.
71. Quirin, A. et al. (2008) 'A New Variant of the Pathfinder Algorithm to Generate Large Visual Science Maps in Cubic Time', Information Processing and Management, 44/4: 1611-23.
72. Radosevic, S. and Myrzakhmet, M. (2009) Between vision and reality: Promoting innovation through technoparks in an emerging economy, Technovation, 29/10: 645-56. Elsevier.
73. Rafols, I. et al. (2012) 'Big Pharma, Little Science?', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 81: 22-38. Elsevier Inc.
74. Rosenberg, N. (1990) 'Why do Firms do Basic Research (with their Own Money)?', Research Policy, 19: 165-74. DOI: 10.1016/0048-7333(90)90046-9.
75. Rothaermel, F. T. and Thursby, M. (2005) 'Incubator Firm Failure or Graduation?The Role of University Linkages', Research Policy, 34/7: 1076-90.
76. Sainsbury, D. (1999) Biotechnology Cluster: Report of a Team led by Lord Sainsbury, Minister for Science. London: Department of Trade and Industry.
77. Santoro, M. D. and Chakrabarti, A. K. (2002) 'Firm Size and Technology Centrality in Industry-University Interactions', Research Policy, 31/7: 1163-80.
78. Sawardecker, E. N. et al. (2009) 'Comparison of Methods for the Detection of Node Group Membership in Bipartite Networks', The European Physical Journal B, 72/4: 671-7.
79. Schwartz, M. and Hornych, C. (2010) 'Cooperation Patterns of Incubator Firms and the Impact of Incubator Specialization: Empirical Evidence from Germany', Technovation, 30/9-10: 485-95. Elsevier.
80. Scott, J. T. (2000) Social Network Analysis: A Handbook. London; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
81. Siegel, D., Westhead, P. and Wright, M. (2003a) 'Assessing the Impact of University Science Parks on Research Productivity: Exploratory Firm-Level Evidence from the United Kingdom', International Journal of Industrial Organization, 21: 1357-69.
82. -. (2003b) 'Science Parks and the Performance of New Technology-Based Firms: A Review of Recent UK Evidence and an Agenda for Future Research', Small Business Economics, 20: 177-84.
83. Sismondo, S. (2009) 'Ghosts in the Machine: Publication Planning in the Medical Sciences', Social Studies of Science, 39/2: 171-98. DOI: 10.1177/0306312708101047.
84. Smith, R. (2005) 'Medical Journals are an Extension of the Marketing arm of Pharmaceutical Companies', PLoS Medicine, 2: e138. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020138.
85. Soetanto, D. P. and Jack, S. L. (2013) 'Business incubators and the networks of technology-based firms', The Journal of Technology Transfer, 38: 432-53, DOI: 10.1007/s10961-011-9237-4.
86. Tijssen, R. (2001) 'Global and Domestic Utilization Of Industrial Relevant Science: Patent Citation Analysis of Science-Technology Interactions and Knowledge Flows', Research Policy, 30: 35-54.
87. Tijssen, R. and Korevaar, J. C. (1997) 'Unravelling the Cognitive and Interorganisational Structure of Public/ Private RandD Networks: A Case Study of Catalysis Research in the Netherlands', Research Policy, 25/8: 1277-93.
88. Tijssen, R., van Leeuwen, T. N. and van Wijk, E. (2009) 'Benchmarking University-Industry Research Cooperation Worldwide: Performance Measurements and Indicators Based on Co-authorship Data for the World's Largest Universities', Research Evaluation, 18/1: 13-24.
89. Vedovello, C. (1997) 'Science Parks and University-Industry Interaction: Geographical Proximity Between the Agents as a Driving Force', Technovation, 17/9: 491-531.
90. Wasserman, S. and Faust, K. (1994) Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications, 825. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
91. Westhead, P. (1997) 'RandD "Inputs" and "Outputs" of Technology Based Firms Located On and Off Science Parks', RandD Management, 27/1: 45-62.
92. Westhead, P. and Storey, D. J. (1995) 'Links Between Higher Education Institutions and High Technology Firms', Omega, 23/4: 345-60.
93. Whitley, R. and Gläser, J. (2007) The Changing Governance of the Sciences: The Advent of Research Evaluation Systems. Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
94. Wilson, T. (2012) A Review of Business - University Collaboration, 89. London: BIS.
95. Zheng, J. et al. (2011) 'International Scientific and Technological Collaboration of China from 2004 to 2008: A Perspective from Paper and Patent Analysis', Scientometrics, 91/1: 65-80.
96. Zucker, L. G., Darby, M. R. and Armstrong, J. S. (2002) 'Commercializing Knowledge: University Science, Knowledge Capture, and Firm Performance in Biotechnology', Management Science, 48/1: 138-53.