22.01.2025
12:30-13:30

A Dataset on Knowledge Creation and Patenting by European Higher Education Institutions (KC-HEI)

WIFO Research Seminar
Organised by: Austrian Institute of Economic Research
  • Speaker:
  • Aleksandra Parteka (Gdansk University of Technology)
Language: English
WIFO, Helene Lieser Saal or online via MS Teams
The 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).

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). Parteka and her colleagues 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 them to build a parallel dataset covering 785 patenting and 2101 non-patenting universities in Europe between 2011 and 2019. They 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.