Bridging Academia and Industry: How Geographic Hubs Connect University Science and Corporate Technology
Abstract
Innovative firms rely increasingly on academic science, yet they exploit only a small fraction of all academic discoveries. Which discoveries in academia do firms build upon? We posit that hubs play the role of bridges between academic science and corporate technology. Tracking citations from patents to approximately 10 million academic articles, we find that hubs facilitate the flow of academic science into corporate inventions in two ways....
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Title
Bridging Academia and Industry: How Geographic Hubs Connect University Science and Corporate Technology
Published Date
Aug 1, 2020
Journal
Volume
66
Issue
8
Pages
3425 - 3443
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