Do co-publications with industry lead to higher levels of university technology commercialization activity?

This paper examines the impact of university-industry R&D collaboration as measured by university-industry co-publications (UICs) on university technology commercialization output for leading US and Canadian universities, after controlling for the quantity and quality of their research and for their commercialization resources. Results showed that UICs do have a significant positive influence on universities´ patenting (both in terms of simple patent counts and citation-weighted patents) and spin-off formation. Implications of these findings and possibilities for future research are discussed.