Enhancing university –industry collaboration: What are the drivers of academic researchers’ involvement in industry?

Abstract

Industry engagement of researchers plays an important role in organizational outcomes such as increased number of licenses and patents, innovation, successful R&Ds and consequently increased efficiency and economic performance. The gap between the theory and practice of industry engagement are identified and a scientific model of industry engagement of is developed in this paper. The research model depicts the possible generation of the industry engagement as an outcome. Through a detailed review of all factors belonging to the scope of motives that are opportunity-driven, key factors that are most conducive to researchers" industry engagement were identified. We have proposed the relationship between compensation and recognition, access to resources, application of the research, networking opportunities, and industry problem solving with industry engagement. This study supports the notion that industry engagement is essential for improving organizational learning capability and innovation performance. Significant implications for organizations exist, as they are aware of which parts of their operations and conditions will drive relevant talent to engage in the organizations" work.

University-Industry joint undertakings with high societal impact: A micro-processes approach

“…The above runs counter to the studies of Galid (2015) and Soendergaard (2015). They argue that economic incentives, recognition, networking, access to resources, industry problem-solving, research application (Ahamed Galib et al, 2015), organizational incentives, attitude towards collaboration, and intentions for participation (Soendergaard et al, 2015) are the main drivers promoting joint UIC activities (Mahdad et al, 2020(Mahdad et al, , 2018Perkmann et al, 2021). Regarding the consequences of UIC joint activities, our study found that such joint undertakings in emerging contexts occur mostly informally and aim to solve a social problem.…”