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Science and technology parks and their effects on the quality of tenants’ patents Antón Tejón, Marcos Martínez, Catalina Albahari, Alberto Barge-Gil, Andrés Patentes Tecnología - Innovaciones Empresa - Gestión Comunicación en la gestión Science and technology parks (STPs) have proliferated in many countries as an innovation policy tool. Several studies have used patent counts to assess their impact on innovation performance rather than the quality of patents, leading to mixed results. The aim of this paper is to explore whether STPs contribute to increasing the quality of patents filed by tenants since patent counts alone do not capture the technological or economic value of the patented inventions. Using a novel database of Spanish patents generated on- and off-park together with firms’ characteristics, we compare the quality of patents filed by firms located inside 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 our results are robust to omitted variable bias and explore possible channels through which STPs produce an effect on patent quality, such as by facilitating collaboration, increasing collaboration with universities, and fostering the internationalisation of inventions. 2024-01-30T07:51:12Z 2024-01-30T07:51:12Z 2024-01-24 journal article 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 https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29343 10.1007/s10961-023-10060-8 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Springer Nature