How productive are academic researchers in agriculture-related sciences? The Mexican case

Rivera, René, Sampedro, José Luis, Dutrenit, Gabriela, Ekboir, Javier Mario and Vera Cruz, Alexandre (2009). How productive are academic researchers in agriculture-related sciences? The Mexican case. UNU-MERIT.

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  • Author Rivera, René
    Sampedro, José Luis
    Dutrenit, Gabriela
    Ekboir, Javier Mario
    Vera Cruz, Alexandre
    Title How productive are academic researchers in agriculture-related sciences? The Mexican case
    Publication Date 2009
    Publisher UNU-MERIT
    Abstract This paper explores the effect of commercial farmers-academic researchers linkages on research productivity in fields related to agriculture. Using original data and econometric analysis, our findings show a positive and significant relationship between intensive linkages with a small number of commercial farmers and research productivity, when this is defined as publications in ISI journals. This evidence seems contrary to other contributions that argue that strong ties with the business sector reduce research productivity and distort the original purposes of university, i.e., conducting basic research and preparing highly-trained professionals. When research productivity is defined more broadly adding other types of research outputs, the relationship is also positive and significant confirming the argument that close ties between public research institutions and businesses foster the emergence of new ideas that can be translated into innovations with commercial and/or social value. Another important finding is that researchers in public institutions produce several types of research outputs; therefore, measuring research productivity only by published ISI papers misses important dimensions of research activities.
    Keyword Agriculture sector
    Research productivity
    University-business sector interaction
    JEL 031
    032
    Q16
    Q18
    Copyright Holder UNU-MERIT
    Copyright Year 2009
    ISSN 1871-9872
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