Links Between Academic Research and Industrial Innovation: Changes Over Time and Differences by Size of Firm and Country

本项目调查：（1）自然界最近的变化 以及学术研究与 各行业的产业创新;（2）差异 在小型、中型和大型企业中， 他们的创新是基于最近的学术研究， 他们利用、使用和与学术界互动的方式 （3）美国和外国公司在 近年来的创新在多大程度上是基于 （4）与学术研究成功相关的因素 向工业界转让知识和技术诀窍， 大学开展的研究;（5）主导因素 学术研究人员从事被公司视为 对他们的产品和工艺有重大贡献 创新。 其目的是揭示这些重要的每一个新的光 话题 在我们以前在这方面的工作的基础上， 信息处理、电子、化工、 仪器，制药，金属和石油工业是 收集和分析的数据以及来自样本的数据/信息 被公司引用的学术研究人员， 特别重要的贡献， 他们的产品和工艺创新。 根据详细数据 这类，统计分析将进行， 其结果应有助于决策者尝试 以增加国家学术界的经济回报， research.

This project investigates: (1) recent changes in the nature and strength of the links between academic research and industrial innovation in various industries, (2) differences among small, medium-sized and large firms in the extent to which their innovations are based on recent academic research and in the ways in which they tap into, use, and interact with academic research, (3) differences between U.S. and foreign firms in the extent to which their innovations in recent years have been based on academic research, (4) factors associated with the successful transfer to industry of the knowledge and know how resulting from research carried out by universities, and (5) factors leading academic researchers to do work regarded by firms as being significant contributions to their product and process innovations. The purpose is to shed new light on each of these important topics. Building on our previous work in this area, data from firms in the information processing, electronics, chemical, instruments, pharmaceutical, metals, and petroleum industries is collected and analyzed as well as data/information from a sample of academic researchers who have been cited by firms in these industries as having made particularly significant contributions to their product and process innovations. Based on detailed data of this sort, statistical analyses will be carried out, the results of which should be of use to decision makers attempting to increase the economic payoff from the nation's academic research.