Research policy often asks for international academic collaboration or collaborations between universities and other actors in society. To improve the understanding of such collaborations, a systematic analysis of academic–corporate co-publications was conducted, with a focus on the international dimension. Based on the global volume of publications in the Scopus database, one result is that academic–corporate co-publications enjoy a higher citation impact than other types of publications. Another result is that such co-publications are to a large extent internationally co-authored. Studies of ten countries and the ten plus ten largest academic and corporate institutions in these countries in terms of academic–corporate co-publications confirm these results and provide further details. Finally, the results indicate a positive correlation between the share of academic–corporate co-publications in a country and the innovation performance in indices such as the Global Innovation Index and the European Innovation Scoreboard. This study highlights the need to consider the numbers of co-authors and the high share of international co-publications when analyses are based on academic–corporate co-publications. Even though academic–corporate co-publications only reflect a small part of all academic–corporate collaborations, academic–corporate co-publications are shown to be useful as one of many potential tools to assess collaborations between academic and corporate actors and associated investments in research and innovation. It is also argued that the results of the study support policies promoting academic–corporate collaborations leading to co-publications.

研究政策通常要求国际学术合作或大学与社会其他参与者之间的合作。为了增进对此类合作的理解，对学术机构与企业的联合出版物进行了系统分析，重点是国际方面。根据Scopus数据库中全球出版物的数量，一项结果是，学术机构与公司的联合出版物比其他类型的出版物享有更高的引文影响。另一个结果是，这种共同出版物在很大程度上是国际合著。对十个国家以及这些国家中十个十个最大的学术和公司机构进行的学术-企业联合发表的研究证实了这些结果，并提供了进一步的细节。最后，结果表明，一个国家的学术机构与企业共同出版物所占份额与全球创新指数和欧洲创新记分牌等指数的创新绩效之间存在正相关关系。这项研究强调了在基于学术企业联合出版物进行分析时，需要考虑合作作者的数量和国际合作出版物的较高份额。尽管学术与企业之间的共同出版物仅反映了所有学术与企业之间的合作的一小部分，但学术与企业之间的共同出版物被证明是评估学术与企业参与者之间的合作以及相关研究投资的众多潜在工具中的有用工具之一和创新。