Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Geuna Aldo
Author-Email: aldo.geuna@unito.it
Author-Name: Bodas Freitas Isabel Maria
Author-Email: isabel.bodasdearaujofreitas@polito.it
Author-Name: Rossi Federica
Author-Email: rossi.federica@unito.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: The Governance of University-Industry Knowledge Transfer:Why small firms do (not) develop institutional collaborations?
Abstract:This analysis is based on a representative sample of firms in the Italian region of Piedmont, and investigates 
the nature and intensity of collaborations between regional firms and universities in different locations. 
It contributes to the literature on university industry knowledge transfer in investigating institutional 
collaborations, typically mediated by the university through its administrative structures such as departments or 
dedicated units such as technology transfer offices, and contractual personal collaborations between firms and 
individual academics, involving formal and binding contractual agreements, but carried out without the direct 
involvement of the university.We explore and compare the characteristics of firms involved in these two different 
governance forms of knowledge transfer, with those of firms that do not collaborate with universities. Our analysis 
shows that firms that use contractual personal collaborations are generally smaller and more often interested in 
the acquisition of external embodied and disembodied knowledge and open innovation strategies.
Length: 35 pages
Creation-Date: 2010-07
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati_wp/wp2010dip_l_b/13_wp_momigliano.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:labeco:201013