1. Introduction: People, tensions and impact in university interactions -- 2. PhDs with industry partners – assessing collaboration and topic distribution using a text mining methodology -- 3. The heterogeneous impact of academic patent characteristics on firms’ economic performance -- 4....

This paper aims to improve our understanding of the attributes of academic researchers that influence the capacity to contribute to technical advance, by either adding to the pool of technological opportunities available to industry or engaging in the exploitation of entrepreneurial...