NEW EVIDENCE ON THE FIRM-UNIVERSITY LINKAGES IN EUROPE. THE ROLE OF MERITOCRATIC MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

Francesco Aiello (), Paola Cardamone () and Valeria Pupo ()

No 201905, Working Papers from Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF

Abstract: This paper investigates the determinants of university-industry links in five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK), using internationally comparable firm-level data for the period 2007-2009. Besides the usual firm-specific variables, it examines the role of meritocratic management practices in firms’ decisions to collaborate in R&D. Firm innovative efforts, the export status and the R&D government support are positively related to business-university links in almost all countries, human capital and firms’ size in two out of five countries under scrutiny, while belonging to science-based sectors does not seem to play a significant role. Importantly, we find that meritocratic managerial practices positively affect the firm-university nexus in Germany, France and UK, while meritocracy does not appear to enhance businesses’ R&D collaboration in Italy and in Spain.

Keywords: industry-university links; European countries; R&D; manufacturing firms; meritocratic managerial practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 D21 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2019-04
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