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Proximity and impact of university-industry collaborations. A topic detection analysis of impact reports

Rossi, Federica and De Silva, Muthu and Pavone, P. and Rosli, Ainurul and Yip, N.K.T. (2024) Proximity and impact of university-industry collaborations. A topic detection analysis of impact reports. Technological Forecasting & Social Change , ISSN 0040-1625.

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Abstract

The probability to initiate university-industry collaborations (UICs), their intensity and quality, are influenced by the proximity between the collaboration partners. However, little is known about the relationship between collaborators’ proximity and impact of UICs. Building on an original database of 415 UICs in the United Kingdom, we analyse the association between collaborators’ proximity and the extent to which UICs generate economic, social and knowledge impact. We find that geographical and institutional proximity are substitutes in relation to economic impact, cognitive and institutional proximity are substitutes in relation to knowledge impact, and social impact is associated with cognitive and institutional distance.

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Item Type: Article
Keyword(s) / Subject(s): University-industry collaborations (UICs), impact measurement, topic detection, geographical proximity, cognitive proximity, institutional proximity
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
Depositing User: Administrator
Date Deposited: 07 Jun 2024 05:27
Last Modified: 16 Apr 2025 10:38
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53657

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