Lags between academic science and inventiveness in Poland

Małgorzata  Wachowska

Published : 2016-09-14

Vol. 4 No. 3 (2016)

Lags between academic science and inventiveness in Poland

Małgorzata Wachowska

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to show how fast university knowledge is transferred to enterprises located in Poland. An analysis of patent applications of enterprises made it possible to conclude that (1) academic knowledge diffuses to enterprises faster (11.93 years) than industrial knowledge (13.63 years); (2) univer-sity knowledge from patents diffuses faster (11.62 years) than from scientific papers (12.45 years) and (3) academic knowledge of foreign origin diffuses to enterprises faster (9.96 years) than knowledge of domestic origin (12.87 years).

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inventions, knowledge diffusion, patent citations, Poland, universities

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Wachowska, M. . (2016). Lags between academic science and inventiveness in Poland. Forum Scientiae Oeconomia, 4(3), 81–91. Retrieved from https://ojs.wsb.edu.pl/index.php/fso/article/view/213

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