Johann Eppelsheimer (p), Christoph Rust

Tüzin Baycan

This paper applies functional regression to precise geo-coded register data to measure productivity
spillovers from high-skilled workers. We use smoothing splines to model the spatial
distribution of high-skilled workers as continuous curves. The rich panel data allows us to address
spatial sorting of workers and the entanglement of spillover from supply and demand effects with an
extensive set of time-varying fixed effects.

Tüzin Baycan (p), Gökçen Arkalı Olcay

Joachim Möller

Many universities across the world are in a transformation stage from their traditional research and teaching missions to a state where they adapt a third mission of becoming more entrepreneurial universities. Having high interactions with industry and government, entrepreneurial universities form an important part of knowledge commercialization and can contribute significantly to the regional development. Drawing attention to the rise of entrepreneurial universities in Turkey, this study explores the role of academic entrepreneurship in university knowledge commercialization. To date, more than 50 technology development centers were established in Turkey during the last two decades. While all technology development centers are connected to a university in their region, there is not much known about how the level of academic entrepreneurship in terms of spin off firms, contracted research, patenting and licensing activities vary and interact with the university characteristics among various regions across the country. Various government agencies develop initiatives working with universities and private sector to foster university knowledge commercialization in Turkey. In that perspective, the most entrepreneurial and innovative universities and the research universities are being measured recently by the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council and Turkish Higher Education Council, respectively. In order to reflect to such knowledge commercialization efforts, this study sheds light on the academic entrepreneurship performance of technology development centers based on the university and the regional characteristics.

Joachim Möller (p), Johann Eppelsheimer

Johann Eppelsheimer

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