TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hall,Bronwyn H.
AU  - Link,Albert N.
AU  - Scott,John T.
TI  - Universities as Research Partners
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 7643
PY  - 2000
Y2  - April 2000
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7643
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7643.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Bronwyn H. Hall
Dept. of Economics
549 Evans Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
Tel: 510/642-3878
Fax: 510/548-5561
E-Mail: bhhall@nber.org
AB  - Universities are a key institution in the US innovation system and an important aspect of their involvement is the role they play in Private-Public Partnering activities. This study seeks to gain a better understanding of the performance of university-industry research partnerships using a sample survey of pre-commercial research projects funded the U.S. government's Advanced Technology Program. Although results must be interpreted cautiously due to the small size of the sample, the study finds that projects with university involvement tend to be in areas involving  new' science and therefore experience more difficulty and delay but also are more likely not to be aborted prematurely. We interpret this finding to imply that universities are contributing to basic research awareness and insight among the partners in ATP-funded projects.
ER  -