| By: |
Aleksandra Parteka (Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland);
Piotr PÅ‚atkowski (Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland);
Sabina Szymczak (Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland);
Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz (Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland) |
| Abstract: |
This paper describes the construction of a microlevel database on knowledge
creation by higher education institutions (KC-HEI), accompanying the Global
Knowledge Input-Output database (KIO, Davies et al., 2023). The database was
created as part of Project Rethink GCS. KC-HEI links PATSTAT information on
the patenting activity of 866 universities (HEIs) in 31 European countries
over four decades (1980-2019), using citation records and patent quality
indicators from OECD/STI Micro-data. KC-HEI makes possible analysis of the
Institutions' innovation performance across 128 internationally comparable
technological sectors and, separately, with respect to Artificial Intelligence
(AI). We also develop a unique crosswalk between PATSTAT and ETER that
combines KC-HEI with other institution-level datasets (such as ETER and RISIS)
and allows us to build a parallel dataset covering 785 patenting and 2101
non-patenting universities in Europe between 2011 and 2019. We illustrate the
potential of the KC-HEI database, providing key stylised facts on the role of
universities in knowledge creation, while documenting extreme core-periphery
patterns of university patenting in Europe and detecting several key
university-level factors that reinforce this disparity. |
| Keywords: |
Patents, Innovation, Knowledge, Higher Education Institutions, University |
| JEL: |
O31 O33 I23 |
| Date: |
2024–06 |
| URL: |
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gdk:wpaper:73&r= |