We study the impact of university-industry research collaborations on academic
output, in terms of productivity and direction of research. We report findings from
a longitudinal dataset on all the researchers from the engineering departments in
the UK in the last 20 years. We control for the endogeneity caused by the dynamic
nature of research and the existence of reverse causality. Our results indicate that
researchers with industrial links publish significantly more. Productivity, though,
is ...
We study the impact of university-industry research collaborations on academic
output, in terms of productivity and direction of research. We report findings from
a longitudinal dataset on all the researchers from the engineering departments in
the UK in the last 20 years. We control for the endogeneity caused by the dynamic
nature of research and the existence of reverse causality. Our results indicate that
researchers with industrial links publish significantly more. Productivity, though,
is higher for low levels of industry involvement. Moreover, growing ties with the
industry skew research towards a more applied approach.
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