Innovation and Scientific Research as a Sustainable Development Goal in Spanish Public Universities

One of the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 is building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialisation, fostering innovation. This paper aims to analyse possible consequences stimulating commercial exploitation academic research, encouraged by recent policy initiatives legislative changes, on quantity quality scientific knowledge in Spain’s public universities. We collected data innovation variables (national patents, R&D consultancy agreements, services rendered, licenses PCT extensions spin-offs), publications number citations 48 Spanish universities 2009–2018 from Observatorio IUNE, which obtains Patent Trademark Office, Network Research Results Transfer Offices Web Science. The results linear regressions models showed that render more have a greater PCTs (patent cooperation treaties), positive impact However, national patents has no output. Finally, with lower citations.