Arts and design as translational mechanisms for academic entrepreneurship: The metaLAB at Harvard case study

Simeone, Luca; Secundo, Giustina; Schiuma, Giovanni

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.10.021

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“…While the topic of knowledge translation is considered relevant in several business fields (Bagnoli et al, 2020;Massaro et al, 2019;Simeone et al, 2018), it is even more prevalent in healthcare and medicine. At the time of our analysis, the search key "knowledge AND translation AND healthcare OR medicine" in the title, abstract, or keywords on the scientific database Scopus led more than 3,000 contributions of which over 2,000 in the medical and clinical literature.…”

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Knowledge Translation in the Healthcare Sector. A Structured Literature Review

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García-Pérez²,

Sousa³

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Knowledge translation can be understood as the ability to translate concepts between different contexts by stakeholders who have different skills, aims, and even feelings in their relation to such concepts. Knowledge translation tools allow for the effective transfer of existing knowledge as well as the emergence of new knowledge of value to some or all of the stakeholders involved in the process. Knowledge translation is particularly challenging in healthcare and medicine, where different practitioners (e.g. physicians, biologists, engineers, researchers) and professionals need methodologies and tools to communicate and share knowledge among them and with patients in an effective manner. To better understand this phenomenon, we conducted a Structured Literature Review (SLR). The concepts knowledge, translation and either healthcare or medicine were used as search terms in the title, abstract or keywords on Scopus, which highlighted more than 2,000 contributions in the medical literature and only 22 in Business and Management. Our review of these documents revealed a need in the healthcare sector for better managerial and organisational practices to cope with the various challenges related to the sharing of knowledge among stakeholders. At the same time, the business and management communities appear to have made significant progress in addressing the same issues. We therefore decided to concentrate our analysis on the works published by the business and management community as a mean to highlight future research directions for the healthcare management sector. Thus, our research identifies areas of relevance which are currently underdeveloped, provides insights on both theoretical and empirical developments and offers a critique of the approaches, research frameworks and methods used, as well as emerging trends in these domains. Despite a lack of an agreed definition of the term Knowledge Translation, our findings highlight a growing interest in the topic, with most of the contributions published after 2015. Scholars have approached the term from a variety of perspectives depending on the nature of the stakeholders of relevance to their studies. Whilst there does not seem to be a predominant framework, the literature reveals several tools and techniques that are effective in enhancing Knowledge Translation in different contexts. New research opportunities in this domain emerge in terms of underinvestigated areas within the healthcare sector.

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confidence: 99%

Knowledge Translation in the Healthcare Sector. A Structured Literature Review

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García-Pérez²,

Sousa³

et al. 2020

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“…Audretsch [12] opened to more intangible dimensions of university entrepreneurship, such as the social and behavioural ones. In particular, Simeone et al [65] pointed to the difficulty of a sole economic perspective of quantifying the value generated, in particular, by arts and design entrepreneurial academic settings.…”

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Linking the Creative Economy with Universities’ Entrepreneurship: A Spillover Approach

Lazzaro

2021

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In recent years the importance of the creative economy has also characterised the international higher-education sector through specialised education, research and entrepreneurship. In this paper I apply and discuss the concept of spillovers as a relevant theoretical framework to understand and foster the value generated by university programs in the creative economy. After introducing the main concepts of spillovers in relation to innovation and growth, I discuss the recent developments in the research on spillovers applied to the arts, culture, and creativity. Through a contextualised model of academic creative economy, the analysis is combined with that on knowledge spillovers in higher education and universities’ third mission, to fill a research gap that still exists in creative economy programs and their potential to generate creative spillovers. The study further integrates some more recent literature on university spillovers, which can provide useful methodological suggestions especially oriented toward internalising and enabling positive creative spillovers, in particular in an urban context.

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“…Specific forms of expertise play an important role in facilitating the coordination and transfer of knowledge across boundaries. When dealing with knowledge transfer at the interface of U-I research projects, Simeone et al (2018) stated that, given the different objectives and languages prevalent in academic and industrial contexts, translation mechanisms between these two groups of stakeholders are needed to establish a common platform of communication and knowledge sharing, and "[. .…”

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Understanding knowledge translation in university–industry research projects: a case analysis in the automotive sector

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PurposeIn this paper, we depart from extant conceptualisations of knowledge translation mechanisms to examine projects as a way to achieve effective knowledge transfer. Our empirical analysis focused on a university–industry research project in the automotive industry.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical analysis was based on a qualitative investigation. We analysed material collected within a research project involving a partnership between two universities and Fiat-Chrysler Automotive (FCA), a multi-brand auto manufacturer with a product range covering several different market segments. We used three data collection techniques: internal document analysis, participant observation and semi-structured interviews.FindingsOur findings show that, in a U-I research project, goals represent a key dimension to support knowledge translation. Defining the goal implies an ongoing negotiation process, where researchers and company employees work together, in order to converge towards a shared meaning of the goal. In this sense, goal orientation and goal-based interaction have significant implications for knowledge translation processes.Originality/valueStudies to date have focussed on the concept of knowledge translation as a way to contextualise the transfer from the source of knowledge to the receiver and to interpret the knowledge to be exchanged. This study expands the understanding of knowledge translation mechanisms in university–industry research settings. It investigates the concept of projects as powerful knowledge translation mechanism in a dynamic and longitudinal perspective. Our contribution provides insight, reflecting on how the use of projects may represent a way to facilitate knowledge transfer and build up new ideas and solutions.

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Arts and design as translational mechanisms for academic entrepreneurship: The metaLAB at Harvard case study

Cited by 36 publications

References 36 publications

Knowledge Translation in the Healthcare Sector. A Structured Literature Review

Knowledge Translation in the Healthcare Sector. A Structured Literature Review

Linking the Creative Economy with Universities’ Entrepreneurship: A Spillover Approach

Understanding knowledge translation in university–industry research projects: a case analysis in the automotive sector

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