Understanding how academia and industry operate and relate to each other is core to improving the efficiency of
the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Reason why, this paper focuses on whether university prestige has a homogeneous
effect on university entrepreneurship. Specifically, whether the relationship between academic prestige and
entrepreneurship varies according to the nature of the firm, digital or not, or according to the size of the
entrepreneurial partner. To answer this question, this paper uses a negative binomial regression model with panel
data with respect to the number of intellectual property (IP) licences granted by the university, using mainly data
from the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The results suggest that although university prestige affects the
number of IP licences granted, its effect ceases to be significant when the nature of the licences is digital. Moreover,
we cannot claim that the influence of prestige is greater when the licencee is a small company.
