Resumen de The effectiveness of knowledge and technology transfer through university-business collaboration in science parks

Claudia Olvera Herrera

• Science and Technology Parks (STPs) facilitate the flow of knowledge and technology among universities; R&D institutions; companies and markets, and foster the creation and growth of innovation-based companies. Among the diversities of STPs, it is possible to identify two types: (i) Science Parks (SPs), which involve university shareholding and (ii) Technology Parks (TPs), which are not owned by universities. This study will take into account only SPs since they are closely linked to the university, and they are the bridge between a University and companies in the process of Knowledge and Technology Transfer (KTT). The evaluation of the firms' performance in Science Parks results determinant to identify the needs of the companies and the feasibility of the University-Business Collaboration (UBC). The firms' real needs also are of interest for Universities and Science parks, since they face the challenge of designing strategies that best help them to transfer the knowledge more effectively. While previous studies have been focused on tenants´ innovation performance on-Park and off-Park, very little research has taken into account the Parks heterogeneity that may affect the firms' performance. This research paper focuses on SPs in Spain and Mexico due to data availability. This paper (i) aims to identify the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in UBC used by co-located companies at SPs, and (ii) explore the performance measure (KPIs) in UBC and critical success factors of SPs. For this study, data was collected through fifty eight online company surveys in Spain and forty two in México.

  This empirical analysis uses fourteen semi-structured interviews, addressed to SPs directors in order to explore (KPIs) and success factors of SPs in both countries