This document summarizes key aspects of a report on university-industry collaboration and new policies supporting spin-offs. It discusses how recent policy approaches focus on supporting high-potential spin-offs and student entrepreneurship. Public research institutions have developed programs like in-house business incubation and specialized entrepreneurship training to support academic spin-offs. The document also provides case study examples of new policies from various countries that focus on quality, students, and in-house support for spin-offs.

1. UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY
COLLABORATION:
NEW EVIDENCE AND
POLICY OPTIONS
Chapter 5
Please cite this publication as:
OECD (2019), University–Industry Collaboration: New Evidence and Policy Options,
OECD Publishing, Paris,
https://doi.org/10.1787/e9c1e648-en.
José Guimón
Caroline Paunov
Martin Borowiecki

2. • Spin-offs are one important channel of knowledge
transfer.
• This chapter
– provides an overview of policy options to support
academic spin-offs,
– and gives insights into recent trends in policies
supporting spin-offs.
Chapter 5. New policy practice in support
of spin-offs

3. 1. Focus is on quality and student
entrepreneurship
 Recent policy approaches provide
support to spin-offs with high
potential
 Greater attention is also placed on
promoting spin-offs initiated by
students
2. Public research institutions
have developed programmes to
support academic spin-offs
 In-house business incubation
programmes
 Specialized training on
entrepreneurship (marketing,
business plan, etc.)
New policy practice in support of spin-offs
NEW POLICIES IN SUPPORT OF SPIN-OFFS5

4. • Support for student
entrepreneurship
– Equifund (Greece)
– TUTL scheme (Finland)
– ICURE (UK)
• In-house incubation
– CEA (France)
– Fraunhofer (Germany)
– Tecnalia (Spain)
Case studies: https://oe.cd/2y9
Case study examples
NEW POLICIES IN SUPPORT OF SPIN-OFFS5

5. • Case studies illustrate recent policy programmes
implemented in a variety of OECD countries.
• New policy practice to support spin-offs include focus on
quality and student entrepreneurship.
• Public research institutions pay attention to in-
house business incubation and entrepreneurship
training.
Conclusions
NEW POLICIES IN SUPPORT OF SPIN-OFFS5

6. Website:
https://oe.cd/2xx
The report and all project materials
Please cite this publication as:
OECD (2019), Digital Innovation: Seizing Policy
Opportunities, OECD Publishing, Paris.
https://doi.org/10.1787/a298dc87-en

7. Structure of the report
Key findings and recommendations
Main project findings & policy recommendations
A. Documenting impacts of public research
institutions
Empirical analysis of channels of knowledge transfer
B. Policy instruments and the policy mix for
knowledge transfer
In-depth analysis of policy mix and instruments

8. A. Documenting impacts of public research
institutions
Chapter 1. Assessing the impacts of knowledge transfer on
innovation: Channels and challenges
Overview of the different channels of knowledge transfer and the main
challenges for impact assessment
Chapter 2. How does public research affect industry innovation
and entrepreneurship? New evidence
Empirical analysis of the impacts of public research institutions on
patenting and entrepreneurship
Chapter 3. Gauging social science graduates’ contributions to
knowledge exchange with industry
Empirical analysis of the contribution of the mobility of graduates from
social sciences to different industries

9. B. Policy instruments and the policy mix for
knowledge transfer
Chapter 4. Policy instruments and policy mixes for knowledge
transfer
Overview of the main policy instruments for knowledge transfer and
their interactions
Chapter 5. New policy practice in support of spin-offs
In-depth analysis of the policy mix in support of spin-offs
Chapter 6. Governance of public research and its implications
for knowledge transfer
Empirical analysis of governance of public research policy across
OECD countries

10. Borowiecki, M. and C. Paunov (2018), “How is research policy organised
across the OECD? Insights from a new policy database”, OECD Science,
Technology and Industry Policy Papers, No. 55, OECD Publishing, Paris,
https://doi.org/10.1787/235c9806-en.
Policy papers
Breschi, S., J. Lassébie, A. Lembcke, C. Menon, and C. Paunov (2018),
“Public Research and Innovative Entrepreneurship: Cross-
country evidence from micro-data”, OECD Science, Technology
and Industry Policy Papers, No. 64, OECD Publishing, Paris,
https://doi.org/10.1787/0d057da7-en.

11. Policy papers
Paunov, C., S. Planes-Satorra and T. Moriguchi (2017), “What role
for social sciences in innovation? Re-assessing how scientific
disciplines contribute to different industries”, OECD Science,
Technology and Industry Policy Papers, No. 45, OECD Publishing,
Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/8a306011-en.
Guimón, J. et C. Paunov (2019), “Science-industry knowledge
exchange : A mapping of policy instruments and their
interactions”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy
Papers, No. 64, OECD Publishing, Paris,
https://doi.org/10.1787/66a3bd38-en.
Borowiecki, M., N. El-Mallakh and C. Paunov (2019), “Assessing the
impacts of public research institutions on industry
inventions”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers,
OECD Publishing, Paris (forthcoming)

12. All country case studies are
available at:
https://oe.cd/2y9
Case studies

13. Project events
Paris
March 2018
Website
Summary
Paris
March 2018
Website
Summary
Lisbon
November 2017
Website
Summary
Paris
December 2018
Website
Summary
4 workshops Report launch event
London
April 2019
https://oe.cd/2xs

14. TIP Knowledge Transfer and Impact project
Project website: https://oe.cd/2xx
TIP Website: oe.cd/tip
Contact: Caroline.Paunov@oecd.org