RT Journal Article
T1 Science and technology parks and their effects on the quality of tenants’ patents
A1 Antón Tejón, Marcos
A1 Martínez, Catalina
A1 Albahari, Alberto
A1 Barge-Gil, Andrés
K1 Patentes
K1 Tecnología - Innovaciones
K1 Empresa - Gestión
K1 Comunicación en la gestión
AB Science and technology parks (STPs) have proliferated in many countries as an innovationpolicy tool. Several studies have used patent counts to assess their impact on innovationperformance rather than the quality of patents, leading to mixed results. The aim of thispaper is to explore whether STPs contribute to increasing the quality of patents filed bytenants since patent counts alone do not capture the technological or economic value of thepatented inventions. Using a novel database of Spanish patents generated on- and off-parktogether with firms’ characteristics, we compare the quality of patents filed by firms locatedinside and outside STPs and find that STPs have a positive effect on the quality of the ten-ants’ innovative performance. We apply a novel econometric technique to confirm that ourresults are robust to omitted variable bias and explore possible channels through whichSTPs produce an effect on patent quality, such as by facilitating collaboration, increasingcollaboration with universities, and fostering the internationalisation of inventions.
PB Springer Nature
YR 2024
FD 2024-01-24
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29343
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29343
LA eng
NO Anton-Tejon, M., Martinez, C., Albahari, A. et al. Science and technology parks and their effects on the quality of tenants’ patents. J Technol Transf (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-10060-8
NO Funding for open Access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA. funding from Universidad de Málaga (Contratopredoctoral, I Plan Propio de Investigación, Transferencia y Divulgación Científica de la Universidad deMálaga), and the support and funding of CNRS-CSIC program ALLIES-IRP (LIA2019FR1). CatalinaMartinez gratefully acknowledges funding from the Regional Government of Madrid and the EuropeanSocial Fund (MIMA-CM, H2019/HUM-5859), and the CNRS-CSIC program ALLIES-IRP (LIA2019FR1).Alberto Albahari acknowledges funding from Universidad de Málaga (B4-2023-01) and (B3-2020_01).Andrés Barge-Gil acknowledges funding from Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (ECO2017-82445-R) and from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PID2020-112984GB-C21). The authors are grate-ful to APTE, Asociación de Parques Científicos y Tecnológicos de España, for the support.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026