Individual Differences, Self-Efficacy, and Chinese Scientists’ Industry Engagement

Abstract

Abstract:Research indicates that non-commercial and informal university-industry interactions, which are defined as academic engagement, account for a larger part and play a more important role than commercialization in academic knowledge transfer in China. This paper aims to explore the effect of Chinese scientists' individual differences on academic engagement via social cognitive theory. This study attempts to provide an interpretation of how individual differences affect Chinese academics' industrial engagement through self-efficacy. Based on data collection from Chinese universities, these analysis results show that gender, academic rank, industry connections, and previous industrial experience are significantly associated with Chinese scientists' industry engagement. Furthermore, a scientist's self-efficacy in industry collaborations is also influenced by these four individual factors. The mediating effects of self-efficacy on the relationship between individual differences and academic engagement are confirmed by empirical analysis results. Implications, limitations, and future research directions are discussed at the end of this paper.

La Transferencia del conocimiento y la Innovación en la implementación de Políticas Públicas y Género, Una revisión sistemática de la literatura

“…Con referencia, Zhao & Cai, (2017) definen el compromiso académico, la investigación entre la universidad y la industria y sus interacciones no comerciales e informales, las cuales juegan un papel pág. 709 muy importante en la transferencia del conocimiento entre los académicos (Van De Burgwal et al, 2019).…”