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https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-53574414rvseKeywords:
university-industry linkages, geographical proximity, quality of academic research, policyAbstract
There is a growing interest on the importance of the university-industry linkages and
how these relations are shaped on space. In this way, this paper aims to exam the factors
that influence the geographical distance of university-industry linkages, with the special
concern to the role of the quality of academic research, besides other factors such as
local P&D efforts and the local productive structure. To do that, it was built an empirical
model that uses data of linkages of academic research groups from the Lattes database
from CNPq. The results show that the quality of academic research is positively correlated
to the geographical distance, which means that higher performance research groups
tend to link to distant firms. Nevertheless, this doesn’t mean that lower performance
universities are less important, since they can meet the demand of local firm and they
can collaborate with their innovative efforts.
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