Valuing additive involvement in university-industry partnerships: do government collaborators engage at scales that optimize their value-added?

• Main Author: Carley, Stephen
• Other Authors: Shapira, Philip
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2014
• Subjects: Triple helix; UIG; Proximity studies; Spatial scientometrics; Research valuation; Technology transfer; Academic-industrial collaboration; Public-private sector cooperation; Research and development partnership
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/50274

Collaboration between academic and corporate entities has increased in recent years. On many occasions Government actors (e.g. federal laboratories) will participate in these collaborations, especially when advanced technologies are involved. The following inquiry considers the degree to which the federal entities add (scientific) value to University-Industry partnerships and how this value is spatially mediated. Quantifying degrees of the value that Government actors induce across the spectrum of University-Industry collaborative arrangements is useful for identifying scales at which intervention by federal agents is more effective and/or justified. It is anticipated that the value-added by federal agents in University-Industry collaboration is not spatially uniform but will exhibit greater profitability across specific scales of interaction. Comparing these against actual scales of interaction provides room for discussion on whether Government actors engage Universities and Industry at scales that optimize the value they introduce to these partnerships.