Daniel Coronado

Universidad de Cádiz | UCA · Department of Economics

This paper explores three novel research questions. First, is an increase in the number of countries involved in ownership of a co-patent an effective way to enhance patent quality? Second, if the objective is to raise patent quality, which are the right countries to collaborate with? And third, does cooperation with partners located in a tax haven...

This paper analyses the effects on patent quality of a type of spillovers arising from the disclosure of patent information by firms engaged in competition in a global duopoly. Both firms are involved in producing new technologies and they do not cooperate on joint patents. In this context, we explored whether the disclosure of crucial knowledge in...

Public research institutions have a key role in a knowledge-based society as they lead scientific research and generate patentable technology directly applicable to industrial productive processes. In this paper, we address the latter role. Several well-known papers have dealt with the production of university patents at the level of universities a...

This paper explores the relationship between regional patterns of university technological diversification/specialization in Europe and its effects on the production of new university technological outcomes as measured by patent counts. Our dataset contains 4,580 university-owned patents related to 202 regions of European Union-15 for the period fr...

Drawing upon 106,181 patent applications by the world’s largest defense firms and 241,571 patent citations (2002–2011), this article has two main objectives. The first is to explore the factors affecting the production of mixed patents (those with potential dual applications in both military and civilian spheres). The second is to identify the caus...

Several studies have revealed that R&D funds, university-level characteristics and the internal university environment determine the number of patents applied for by universities. However, only a few papers have analysed the effect of the demand side on the production of patents. This study looks into the extent to which patents generated by Europe...

This paper examines the generation of technological knowledge by leading companies in the defence industry. In particular, we test whether the characteristics of large defence companies are related to both the production of different types of patents (civilian, military and mixed), and the generation of dual-use technologies. To explore these links...

This research provides novel empirical evidence of the relationship between public support for R&D, firms' R&D expenditure, innovation and productivity in the Food and Beverage (F&B) industry. The empirical framework relies on a modified version of the Crépon-Duguet-Mairesse (CDM) model, applied to a sample of 541 Spanish firms over the years from...

Technological diversity, or the breadth of technological knowledge embedded in patented inventions, refers to the range of different technological or economic fields covered by a patent. This paper explores the role of diversification scope in encouraging the production of new patents in European universities by including the diversification scope...

Acosta M., Azagra-Caro J. M. and Coronado D. Access to universities' public knowledge: who is more regionalist?, Regional Studies. This paper tracks university-to-firm patent citations rather than the more usual patent-to-patent or paper-to-patent citations. It explains regional and non-regional citations as a function of firms’ absorptive capacity...

his paper analyses the effects of R&D expenditure in the higher education sector on the scientific production across regions in Europe 15. Our research questions relate to the regional production of science and the role of academic R&D expenditures on regional scientific output. The results show that money affects the production of scientific resul...

Within the framework of "open innovation", a number of key issues related to the acquisition of external knowledge in food technology are addressed. The methodology relies on patents as a measure of the generation of new knowledge, and patent citations as a proxy for external knowledge acquisition towards innovation in food technology. The main re...

In this paper, we carry out an empirical analysis to address some questions concerning the flow of knowledge stemming from military patented technologies. Patented military technology consists of a set of inventions which nature, uses or/and applications have defensive or offensive purposes. In this paper, we focus on the field of weapons and ammun...

This paper uses patent citation data to analyze the quality of university technology across European regions. The empirical analysis draws on a panel dataset of 4580 European university-owned patents classified by 202 European regions over the period 1998-2004. The methodology involves a multilevel framework to identify the effects of factors at th...

The Port of Tarifa is located in the Strait of Gibraltar and is the Iberian Peninsula's southernmost town. The port is operated by the Algeciras Bay Port Authority and currently handles more than a million passengers annually with fast ferries to the Moroccan Port of Tangier. The port authority has planned an expansion of the port in 2015 aimed at...

This paper analyses the factors that influence the use of scientific knowledge in patented technology by agrifood firms in Spain. Our particular objective is to identify whether collaboration with universities and technological characteristics of firms are the determining factors in this process. The methodology is supported by non-patent citations...

This paper explores the potential civil use from the knowledge embedded in military technology. Using forward patent citation as indicator and from a comprehensive sample of 582 military patents with both US and European protection, we analysed the citations received for a military patents in subsequent patents. The technological origin of the citi...

This paper offers some insights into scientific collaboration (SC) at the regional level by drawing upon two lines of inquiry. The first involves examining the spatial patterns of university SC across the EU-15 (all countries belonging to the European Union between 1995 and 2004). The second consists of extending the current empirical analysis on r...

This paper examines the relationship between knowledge spillovers from universities and new business location in high-technology sectors. We focus on the contribution to new business formation through spillovers stemming from three main university outputs: knowledge-based graduates, research activities, and technological knowledge. We construct a n...

The objective of this article is to analyse the factors that affect port competitiveness from the perspective of the agents and companies that operate in one of the Mediterranean ports most active in container traffic: the Port of Algeciras Bay (PAB). It is essential to understand the perspective of the suppliers of port services, in order to apply...

This paper explores the regional patterns of university technological diversification/ specialization in Europe and its effects on the production of new university technologies measured as patents counts. Several econometric specifications reveal that both regional diversification of technology and specialization in high technology have positive an...

El objetivo de este trabajo es dar respuesta a las siguientes tres cuestiones: ¿Cuál es el destino geográfico del conocimiento tecnológico generado por inventores españoles? ¿Hacia qué sectores se difunde la tecnología? ¿Cuáles son las características del conocimiento patentado que se difunde con más intensidad? La metodología hace uso de un anális...

Acosta M., Coronado D., León M. D. and Martínez M. Á. Production of university technological knowledge in European regions: evidence from patent data, Regional Studies. This paper explores the European regional distribution of the production of new technological knowledge generated by universities, as measured by patent counts. The empirical basis...

In this paper we carry out an empirical analysis to address some questions concerning the production and quality of technology in environmental sectors. The methodology involves patents as a measure of the generation of new knowledge, and patent citations as a proxy for the quality of a technological invention. The sample contains more than 12,000...

RESUMEN En este trabajo analizamos el impacto económico regional del tráfico de contenedores en uno de los puertos más importantes del Mediterráneo: el Puerto Bahía de Algeciras (PBA). Para alcanzar este objetivo genérico, detallamos el marco global en el que se desarrollan las actividades de contenerización y las características que condicionan...

The objective of this study is to shed light on the identification of the internal and external factors that affect the attitudes towards innovation of companies located in regions situated on the periphery of economic centres. The main research questions are as follows: (1) What are the internal factors that predispose companies to seek access to...

In this book we study the economic impact of the container traffic at one of the most important port in the Mediterranean: the Port of Algeciras Bay (PAB). In order to meet this general objective we analyse in detail the global framework of the containerisation business and the characteristics that currently condition this process. In a second step...

Relevant scientific literature has demonstrated that in spaces of smaller scale than the national, the availability of scientific knowledge is also relevant for generating spillover effects that benefit the industrial sector. The proliferation of such literature consistently stressing the importance of physical proximity for the two-way flow of kno...

Our objective in this paper is to explore in detail the second of the three essential functions of universities as elements of a system of innovation (Schartinger et al. 2002, Smith, 1995): the generation of a type of knowledge that is directly applicable to industrial production processes; we will use patents as indicator for this process. Several...

Andalucia is a southern European LFR (less-favoured region) with a high degree of self-government that has allowed it to design its own R&D policies that complement those implemented throughout Spain and the European Union (EU). Recently the Regional Government passed the Third Andalucian Research Plan 2000–2003, an R&D planning instrument that, as...

Many regions of the European Union with a high degree of autonomy have elected very clearly to stimulate scientific research and technological development (R&D) as a specific means of promoting economic growth and the welfare of their citizens. In Spain, several autonomous regions have organised their efforts in science and technology by means of t...

Many regions of the European Union with a high degree of autonomy have elected very clearly to stimulate scientific research and technological development (R&D) as a specific means of promoting economic growth and the welfare of their citizens. In Spain, several autonomous regions have organised their efforts in science and technology by means of t...

From a spatial perspective, it is well known in the literature on innovation and technological change that scientific research undertaken in the universities plays an important role as an instrument for stimulating economic growth. In general, the analysis of particular spaces, such as high technology districts or regional systems of innovation, ha...

En este artículo se profundiza en la relación entre la ciencia y el desarrollo tecnológico. La intención es responder a cuestiones como las siguientes: ¿Qué tipo de conocimiento -científico o tecnológico- sustenta fundamentalmente la industria?; ¿qué sectores son los más dinámicos en el empleo del conocimiento científico?; ¿qué campos científicos s...

Este artículo trata de identificar los condicionantes externos de la débil situación de la I+D de las empresas andaluzas. Los principales resultados ponen de relieve, primero, unos factores limitativos estructurales poco propicios para el surgimiento de actividades innovadoras; segundo, unos indicadores del sistema urbano que reflejan un ambiente p...

Este trabajo constituye una herramienta de planificación cuyo objetivo principal es guiar a los habitantes del litoral de La Janda (Cádiz, España) y a todas las administraciones públicas con responsabilidades en esta zona. Hacia un desarrollo más sostenible. Para ello, se han aplicado los principios y método de la Gestión Integrada de Zonas Costera...

Este artículo trata tres cuestiones clave en la relación tecnología-desarrollo territorial: primero, cómo pueden cuantificarse la innovación y las capacidades tecnológicas regionales; segundo, cuáles son los factores determinantes de la innovación y qué papel desempeña la localización; y, tercero, qué puede hacerse para aumentar la capacidad tecnol...

The set of elements which explain the results of the innovation process undertaken by the firms is an ongoing cause of worry for policy makers. In our case, after analyzing how R+D activities and their results are related to regional development, we will examine the factors which influence investigation activities. Among this factors we shall inclu...

GUERRERO D. C. and SERO´ M. A. (1997) Spatial distribution of patents in Spain: determining factors and consequences on regional development, Reg. Studies 31, 381‐390. Innovation and technological development are crucial factors in the economic growth of any country or region. In this paper we set out to analyse the provincial distribution of such...

Los métodos de evaluación de la política económica regional se han revelado como un instrumento de extraordinaria importancia a la hora de determinar los efectos de las medidas implementadas. En este trabajo analizamos una revisión de las principales técnicas y aplicaciones en diferentes contextos temporales y espaciales, pero insertadas en un marc...

Sumario: El proceso de evaluación de las políticas económicas regionales y de sus instrumentos -- La política regional comunitaria -- Métodos y experiencias de evaluación de la política regional comunitaria -- Desequilibrios y potencialidades territoriales en Andalucía -- El FEDER en el marco de las estrategias de desarrollo regional aplicadas en A...

This paper examines the relationship between the knowledge spillovers from universities and new firms' formation in high technology sectors in Spain. We focus on the contribution to new firms' formation through spillovers stemming from the three main university outputs: first, knowledge based graduates, second research activities and third technolo...