The drivers of efficient knowledge transfer performance: evidence from British universities
利用英国数据,研究影响大学知识转移效率的制度与环境因素,发现考虑咨询、公共参与等广泛活动后,非研究密集型大学和艺术人文类大学效率提升,而研究强度不再是强预测因素。
Using data from the UK, this study explores the institutional and environmental factors that influence universities' efficiency in knowledge transfer. While studies of universities' knowledge transfer performance have so far focused on patent commercialisation and research contracting with industry, it is increasingly acknowledged that universities engage in a broader range of knowledge transfer activities, including consulting, public engagement and provision of knowledge-intensive services. When these are taken into account, less research-intensive universities, and those with a greater share of staff in the arts and humanities, improve their relative efficiency. More specialised, older and larger institutions are more efficient performers, while research intensity is no longer a strong predictor of efficiency.