University-industry collaboration and university technology license: the moderating effects of market and R&D strength

This paper explores whether university-industry collaboration can facilitate university technology license with the moderating effects of external and internal environments. Here, the university technology license is measured by the license of university non-collaborative-patent. We set up panel data during 2010-2016 of 118 top universities in China and adopted negative binomial regression for empirical analysis. Results show that university-industry collaboration is positively related to non-collaborative-patent license and market for technology has no moderating effect while the R&D strength can moderate the relationship. Specifically, funding has a positive effect on non-collaborative-patent license while research full-time equivalent of R&D personnel negatively moderates the relationship between collaboration and non-collaborative-patent license. This paper creates a new direction to study influencing factors of university technology license from the perspective of collaborators and environment and verified the driving effect of university-industry collaboration on university technology license. Moreover, it sheds light on theoretical streams of university technology license in developing countries.