This paper borrows analytical tools from the study of public policy, applying them to issues surrounding the development of universities' ‘Third Mission’ indicators. The ‘Third Mission’ refers to all activities concerned with the generation, use, application and exploitation of knowledge...

This paper aims to clarify the nature of university patents as outputs of different types of research and inputs of diverse instruments of interaction, focusing on the case of the Polytechnic University of Valencia at departmental level. A patent production function tests what kind of research...