Skip Navigation



ICC Advance Access published online on July 25, 2008
Industrial and Corporate Change, doi:10.1093/icc/dtn023
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
17/4/611    most recent
dtn023v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Cassiman, B.
Right arrow Articles by Zuniga, P.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved.

In search of performance effects of (in)direct industry science links

Bruno Cassiman, Reinhilde Veugelers and Pluvia Zuniga

Correspondence: Bruno Cassiman, IESE Business School, K.U. Leuven and CEPR, Avenida Pearson 21, 08034 Barcelona, Spain. e-mail: bcassiman{at}iese.edu

Correspondence: Reinhilde Veugelers, Catholic University of Leuven, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. e-mail: reinhilde.veugelers{at}econ.kuleuven.be

Correspondence: Pluvia Zuniga, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2, rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris CEDEX 16. e-mail: Maria-Pluvia.Zunigalara{at}oecd.org

Using patent data from the European Patent Office combined with firm-level data, we evaluate the contribution of science linkages to the innovation performance of a firm at the patent level. We examine the effect of (i) firm-level linkages to science (firms active in publication and co-publication), and (ii) invention-specific linkages (patents with citations to scientific publications) on patent quality measures. Our results suggest that citations to scientific publications are not significant in explaining forward citations but are positively related to the scope of forward citations. Our main finding is that the linkage to science at the firm level matters more for forward citations than the linkage at the invention/patent level. In particular, nonscience-related patents of firms with firm level scientific linkages are more frequently, more broadly, and more quickly cited than comparable patents of firms without these science linkages.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.