The interplay between universities and companies. A case study in the field of 3D Printing

IF 2.2 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

World Patent Information Pub Date : 2024-03-10 DOI:10.1016/j.wpi.2024.102267

Altair Breckwoldt Jurado , Domenico Golzio

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Abstract

Understanding the link between research done at universities and the implication for industrial applications is a recurrent topic in innovation. Non-Patent Literature (NPL) citations found in patents have been seen as a tool to examine this relationship. The study shows that for certain technology sectors NPL citation plays no role as universities do not research in this area or innovation does not require scientific knowledge. For those sectors in which NPL citation plays a more important role, like patents of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, bibliographic data of cited NPL may be used to understand the geographical and institutional origin of these documents to have a clearer idea of knowledge flows between universities, research institutions and firms. NPL is shown to be mostly developed by universities and research institutions whereas firms are normally behind patents, reinforcing patents as an indicator of industrial knowledge development and NPL as an indicator for academic knowledge development. Technological landscapes should consider both to assess possible links and similarity among both. In the case of 3D printing both NPL and patent literature (PL) developments show to share a common long run trend, evidenced by a cointegration relationship, showing that for this specific technology both innovative actors: universities and firms play an important role in innovation development.

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大学与企业之间的相互作用。三维打印领域的案例研究

了解大学研究与工业应用之间的联系是创新领域的一个经常性话题。专利中的非专利文献（NPL）引用被视为研究这种关系的工具。研究表明，在某些技术领域，非专利文献引用并不发挥作用，因为大学并不研究这一领域，或者创新并不需要科学知识。对于那些 NPL 引用发挥着更重要作用的领域，如第四次工业革命的专利，可以利用 NPL 引用的书目数据来了解这些文献的地域和机构来源，从而更清楚地了解大学、研究机构和企业之间的知识流动。结果表明，NPL 主要由大学和研究机构开发，而企业通常落后于专利，这加强了专利作为工业知识发展指标和 NPL 作为学术知识发展指标的作用。技术景观应同时考虑两者，以评估两者之间可能存在的联系和相似性。就 3D 打印技术而言，NPL 和专利文献（PL）的发展显示出共同的长期趋势，协整关系证明了这一点。

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