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Science-Industry Collaborations over the Business Cycle: Evidence from European Regions

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  • Aurelien Quignon

    (ICN Business School, CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine)

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Business cycles shape the innovation incentives and search strategies of science and industry. Using a novel dataset of collaborative patents across 218 European regions from 1990 to 2018, this paper examines the association between recessions and regional science-industry collaborations. I find that science-industry collaborations decrease during economic recessions and increase during expansions. Further analyses suggest that business cycles are associated with shifts in science-industry collaborations' innovation search strategies, with the exploitation of technologies already known to the region increasing during expansion. In contrast, the exploration of new technologies is acyclical. Results contribute to our understanding of collaborative innovation dynamics over the business cycle and offer new insights into the negative effects of recessions.

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  • Aurelien Quignon, 2026. "Science-Industry Collaborations over the Business Cycle: Evidence from European Regions," Working Papers hal-05011843, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-05011843
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