The role of German universities in a system of joint knowledge generation and innovation by Mirja Meyborg

Author:Mirja Meyborg [Meyborg Mirja]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Knowledge, Innovation, German university
ISBN: 9782821851467
Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing
Published: 2016-05-18T09:37:43+00:00

Table 11: Mean Value of Betweenness Centrality of the German Universities, 2000-2009 (own illustration).

At the first glance, it is eye-catching that the value of betweenness centrality has not increased over the past ten years, but decreased from around 0.026 to 0.02450. As the value of normalized degree centrality51 has generally developed the other way round, one may assume that while some of the German universities have gained in importance as knowledge mediators, others might have lost some places in this regard. Another reason can be given by the fact that more German universities have gained in importance regarding their number of distinct cooperation partners, thus, the network has become larger but not automatically tighter so that some of the German universities have received smaller values regarding their importance as mediator. Anyway, the top three universities in 2009 in this regard consist again of the University of Heidelberg (0.097603), the Technical University of Munich (0.086908) and the LMU Munich (0.078098), while the University of Koblenz-Landau, the University of Bamberg and the University of Weimar are the top three regarding the highest increase over the past ten years. A detailed examination of the distinct groups of German universities, pointing to significant differences in their behavioural patterns can be found in chapter ten.

Hence, as the German universities have indeed highly increased their distinct cooperation partners over the past ten years at the expense of possible loops within the networks, hypothesis 2a is only largely confirmed.

Finally, bearing in mind that university-industry linkages have experienced the most dynamic development, the OLS regression model explores whether the increasing cooperation activity of the German universities with enterprises has been affected by third-party funds or not. The following table now illustrates the results of the model52:

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