NA STOPE UNIVERZITNÝM ZNALOSTIAM – ČO VIEME POVEDAŤ O ICH DISSEMINÁCIÍ V PRIESTORE?
ON THE TRAIL OF UNIVERSITY KNOWLEDGE - WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW ABOUT IT 'S DISSEMINATION IN SPACE?

Author(s): Michal Hrivnák, Mária Fáziková
Subject(s): Higher Education
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: university; knowledge diffusion; knowledge spillovers; externality;
Summary/Abstract: The University is a significant producer of new knowledge that spread by different channels and at different speed into the surrounding ether. There is now available a rich literature describing the direct transfer of university knowledge into practice, but significantly smaller part of mostly empirical studies analyze spatial dispersion (diffusion) of such knowledge in the space. Academic knowledge can be transferred also in indirect ways, through social connections between researchers and businesses, through freely available knowledge of university (publications) and by many others, less known and studied channels, what complicates the efforts to map the road, by which university knowledge spreads in area. The paper analyze chosen empirical studies in order to formulate an overview of available knowledge on topic. Objective of the paper is to evaluate methodological approaches and the results of the investigation of knowledge diffusion from different aspects in the selected breakthrough articles since the beginning of the examination of these processes to the present. Also we formulate the gaps in knowledge that are still present.

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